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Curious Cotswold cattle | NEX-7 and E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS St Oswald, Widford | NEX-7 and E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS Birsay church ruins, Brough of Birsay, Orkney | A7 & Minolta AF 24-85

The house in the woods | A7 III and Minolta AF Reflex 500mm F8 The shark | A7 and Samyang AF 35mm F2.8 Two observatories | A7 / LA-VE1 / Vectis Macro 50mm F3.5

Red kite near Oxford | A7 III and Minolta AF Reflex 500mm F8 Dreaming minarets of Oxford | A7 - LA-VE1 - Minolta Vectis 50mm Macro F3.5 Oxford trees /3 | A7 III and Samyang AF 35mm F2.8

Leaving Puno by rail, Peru, 2012 | NEX-3 and E 18-55 zoom

Street scenes along the railway | NEX-3 and E 18-55 | From the last full day of the sadly curtailed trip to Peru, May 2012 High-key tulips close up | A7 III and Sigma 70mm F2.8 Macro WIP | A7 III and FE ZA 24-70 F4

High-key tulips close up | A7 III and Sigma 70mm F2.8 Macro Making | A7 III and FE 24-70 F4 Farewell to Amantaní, Lake Titicaca, Peru, May 2012 | NEX-3 and E 18-55

Low-key tulip close-up | A7 III and 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art 018 New Biochemistry | A7 and FE 28mm F2 Lake Titicaca May 2012 | NEX-3 and E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS

Dunstan Park, ultrawide | A7 III and FE ZA 24-70 F4 | 3-frame stitch and crop to 64:27 Arequipa street | May 2012 | NEX-3 and E 16mm F2.8 Mount Place / Canal Street | Dynax 9 | Tamron 28-300 | outdated Kodak 400

It's interesting the way software is going too. Adobe's new Super Resolution enhancer in ACR effectively makes my 24MP A7 III into a 96MP camera should I so need. (It's actual utility might lie in making large prints better for files with small pixel counts.) See Adobe releases Photoshop for M1 Macs and introduces Super Resolution in ACR (Super Resolution doesn't require an M1 chip).

Crocuses NEX-7 | LA-VE1 | Vectis Macro 50mm F3.5 Snow-capped peaks with foreground May 2012 | NEX-3 | 18-55 OSS zoom Downtown Arequipa | May 2012 | NEX-3 | 18-55 OSS zoom

From the Colca Canyon nine years ago Condor in light | NEX-3 and unknown tele (55-200?) Oxford yesterday A7 III and Tamron SP 70-300 Oxford last week Spire and moon | NEX-7 and E 16-50

Back to Peru in 2012 On the road to the Colca Canyon Chivay Chivay All NEX-3 and E 18-55 zoom

Happy Valentine's Day! Continuing my infatuation with old photos and tech Misti, near Arequipa, Peru, April 2012 NEX-3 and E 18-55 zoom Monster Adapter LA-VE1 bringing an A7 III body together with a Minolta Vectis V 22-80 zoom (electronic connection, manual focus only) NEX-7 and FE ZA 24-70 F4 Late afternoon sun A7 III with Vectis Macro 50 mm F3.5

At this site there is a similar problem described, and it might be an aperture base plate problem you're experiencing - see Minolta Maxxum 7 problem Alternatively, it might be worth asking in the film camera forum at dyxum.com, there are some fairly knowledgeable people there.

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)

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.

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

Oxford spires and snowscape | A7 and FE 24-70mm F4 ZA OSS (Links to larger version at Flickr.) NDM duotone | A7 and FE 28mm F2 + Fisheye Converter using Smooth Reflections app to blur sky Foothills | NEX-3 and E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS Near Nazca, Peru, 2012

And I bet Sony are working on a robot to hold the camera and take the photos ... but that would take the fun out of it, I guess!

DP Review has some sample images and I thought of your work when I saw the sea eagle shot there (Sony Alpha 1 full-resolution sample photos).

Cahuachi Peru 2012 NEX-3 and E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS Biochemistry department extended A900 and Tamron SP 10-24mm < The Church The Perch > A900 and Minolta AF 24-85mm

Chinnor Hill A900 with Minolta AF 35-200mm F4.5-5.6 Weirs Lane A7 with FE 28mm F2 | Playmemories Camera App for Smooth Reflections, Water Flow function Nazca lines: humming bird 2012 NEX-3 with E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS, cropped to 64:27

On the cathedral steps - Lima, April 2012 NEX-3 with E 18-55mm OSS King's Mill - Oxford A7 III with FE 24-70mm F4, cropped to 64:27 Chinnor Hill - Oxfordshire A900 with Minolta AF 35-200xi

Sony A7 + FE 28mm F2 + 0.75x UWC (=21mm)

Happy New Year, folks! Flooded Marston Cycle Path, New Year's Eve | A7 & FE 28mm F2 + ultra wide converter = 21mm Rotate | A7 & FE 28mm F2 with in-camera multiexposure app Marston Cycle Path New Year's Eve, later | A7 & FE 28mm F2, 3-frame stitch and crop