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Inside the Mind of Minolta – an Investigation of the Internals of Minolta’s SRT 303 – By Bob Janes

As I mentioned in a previous article in which I dissected an Old Canonet, I have occasionally taken interesting but non-functioning cameras apart – mainly to investigate, but there have been the occasional times when I’ve managed to fix something.

What I intend to do with this article is to show how fiendishly complicated an SLR camera can be by taking apart an old Minolta SRT 303b from the 1970s.

It’s Dead Jim – A Dissection of an Old Rangefinder Camera – By Bob Janes

This article is a little different. It is very much focussed on a camera, but I’m hoping it will be of interest to photographers to give some background and understanding to the equipment they are using. This is a camera dissection of an old Canonet rangefinder. My father was an instrument maker by profession. I …

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