Yes, its one of my favorites as well! 😃

Thats great! Hp5 is one of my top favorite films :) even pushed to 6400 iso everything looks great!

Thank you 😃 i try my best to make it as informative and short as possible :) im happy you like it :)

I am happy that you like it :) do you have one yourself? :)

Im glad you like it and i wish you luck on this amazing journey! 😃

Go for it!

i'm glad you like it! 😃

Yes fuji makes amazing cameras as well 😃 i think about buying some old and small fuji camera with film presets for some quick travel shots 😃

The XD's are the best Minolta manual focus cameras. The later X series that replaced XD have more electronics but uses less expensive and slower cloth shutter to reduce the production cost.

Yes, its a child of the leica cooperation so it was built well! 😃

@@grainificent I worked at a company called Photopia in Newcastle Staffs from 1978 to 1983, they were the UK and European import distributor / main service agent for Minolta then later Ricoh cameras, as well as Soligor lenses and Cokin filters at the time of the Minolta/ Leica collaboration. I worked on the consumer electronics side but have strong electro mechanical service background, having worked on Military Gyroscope attitude reference, GM Compass systems and Inertial platforms. My XD cost me £23 with a Rokkor 135mm f1:3.5, in great cosmetic condition, but with a shutter release fault causing the shutter to jam and the mirror locked in the up position. There were a number of contributing issues, but after 25 hours and about a hundred parts removed, cleaned, lubricated and adjusted, only to overexpose my first test roll of HP5. I suspected one of the fragile wires on the Exp Comp/ ISO potentiometer, but found I'd re-connected the wiper to the wrong location. Now I have a beautiful camera.

that was such a journey and an experience! i don't know why i didn't see this reply to your comment earlier! i'm so sorry for answering so late...

Thank you! 😃

the minolta SRT 101 is amazing if you want a SLR camera or (my favorite) the Leica/Leitz Minolta/Minolta CL (all of them were made by minolta but different branding) if you would want a rangefinder camera :)

They are both great cameras! 😃 the xd7 will sound the best thanks to its leica shutter and offers some good automatic programs to help a beginner. Thats what i would go with.

yes, in theory is has a little program mode. when set to shutter priority, when faced with an extreme where the camera can't open or close the lens enough for proper exposure, it will change to a different shutter speed. i have heard about this always but i never checked if my camera does that ;P i need to look into that and try it out :)

@@grainificent oh indeed, that is the compensated programming but it does it only as an AE program. But, it's not the program mode, it's just a little push that they added for convinience. For the program mode, you gotta go green, all green x)

@@georgeabitbol4180 yes i read about that but my xd11 doesnt have grean 1/125s shutter so i wonder if it works. i will do some tests and might make a video about that if i find it works reliably :)

@@grainificent yes i've heard that not all of them have the green 125, and yes that a good question, i never came across one that didn't had the green 1/125, so yeah i'm not sure

@@georgeabitbol4180 i'm waiting for film to arrive and will do some tests if it exposes correctly at the "all green" settings :)

You mean on the shutter „B” setting? It stands for Bulb Mode. That means, the shutter stays open as long as you wold the shutter release button pressed in. It is usefull for long exposures with a release cable connected to the shutter button. You can play around with it by opening the back door and releasing and holding the shutter button on B mode and seeing how the shutter opens and closes when you let go. Have fun 😃

@@grainificent OWHH i see thank you so much!!! Was not really expecting a reply so fast but glad I did get a reply back!! ◡̈ currently overseas in HK with this canera so hopefully can take as many great shots as possible!!☺️

@@joshahtan6675 have fun! 😃 you can always share with me if you would like me to show your work on my channel :) im thinking about starting a series like that where once in a while i show some great photos of my viewers 😃

yes it does seem like an electrical issue... i would try returning it first as it is not working and there can be so many things wrong with electronics... repairs can go over the value of a working one. it can be simple, but you never know.