howardstanbury Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Battling with an old RD-175 - a faulty CF card made the lines; max resolution about 1500x1100px Vessel by Jack Doherty | A7 III and FE ZA 24-70 F4 Vessel and RD-175 | NEX-7 and E PZ 16-50 + 5400HS bounce flash 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisuk2 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 All Images with Sony A850 and Minolta 24-105 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Beautiful Duet by David Stephens, on Flickr Beautiful Coyote Walks By After Sundown by David Stephens, on Flickr Clouds Over Pike's Peak by David Stephens, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin O Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Amazing. What's the RD-175 like to use? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardstanbury Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Amazing. What's the RD-175 like to use? It's a challenge. There's only 1.75MP, one ISO (800), and a max aperture of F6.7. The Minolta software to convert the native .MDC 'RAW' files to TIFFs or JPGs will run on a Windows machine. I didn't have the original recording media, so I have used a CF card in a PCMIA adapter. Max size is about 200MB / 199 photos, regardless of card size. I copy a cloned Minolta card to the CF card in order for the camera to save images. The first image above is corrupted because I think the CF card I was using was damaged. The camera it self is about the size of a big SLR with vertical grip attached. It comprises a film body fused with the digital tech back (and bottom). This extra space doesn't serve as a vertical grip though. It has three batteries - one for the digital bit, another for the camera body, and a third to keep time and date. Alas the latter can only be set via a SCSI cable connected to the camera ... and I don't have that cable. So all my photos are currently date stamped 13 Sept 2059 at 15:21! If you ever get one I'd recommend looking at this thread in dyxum.com, All about Minolta RD-175 - Dyxum - Page 1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin O Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Sounds like fun! But why is the aperture limited like that? I would have thought you could use any aperture the lens offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardstanbury Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 I'm not sure, but the fixed ISO might be a reason, and from what I've read about the technical nature of the digital capture path suggests it's a given with the technology used ... this review goes into some of the detail, Minolta RD-175 = Agfa ActionCam (Chip Shop 05/96) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin O Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Thanks for posting. Really quite interesting. Some of the "high tech" involved makes me chuckle now of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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