Thin Blue Line: Minolta Cameras

Monday 24 December 2012

Minolta Cameras

My first camera was a 120 box camera which I got at age 12 by sending two boxtops and 50 cents to Kelloggs. I took it to the Toledo Zoo on a class trip and photographed a roll of B&W of the animals - a precursor of what I would still be doing many years later. Soon after my father gave me my first 35mm - an Argus C-3 - which I still have. It was the very same camera that he used in China when he worked for the Chrysler Motor Division as photographer and historian in the theater of the Burma Road at the end of World War II. When I went off to college he gave me a new Minolta SRT-101.Today I have an arsenal of Minolta cameras and lenses, ranging from my trusty old SRT's to X-Series systems and a variety of Maxxum cameras. Minolta equipment has served me well over the years - from the burning sands of Arabia and frozen glaciers of Greenland to the steaming humidity of African jungles. Neither moisture and dust, nor severe heat and cold have ever prevented me from completing assignments.