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These series of photos spanning 3 rolls of film are what I managed to produce (recover) from the film I shot in late 2019. I took these with my Minolta SRT 201. I encountered a few problems with the camera that I will detail below;

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The Good; I really like the Bokeh that the Rokker 50mm f1.4 lens gives, It has produced quite a few great shots in the past with its shallow DOF. the 50mm is pretty standard as focal lengths go, I dont mind it but sometimes find myself too close to the subject to fit it into the frame. 

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The Bad; So this camera was picked up for only $5 at the Whites Farm Flea Market in Indiana. I am quite surprised at the quality it has given me over its usage. The downside is that I slowly began to realize that the shutter malfunctions around 1/250, 1/60 and 1/30. The resulting negative is blank or mostly blank. You can see one of the reflection pictures had the top cropped off because of this. This is a heavy flaw, and I now have to look for a new camera. I might get the camera serviced in the future but for the price I bought it for it might be redundant.

 

(good news, im writing this from the future. As of writing I have purchased a Canon FL QL camera and I am using the legendary Canon 19mm f3.5 Retrofocus Lens that I originally bought for my digital camera.)

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