Minolta X-700 MD 135
A test film of my Minolta MD lens 1:2.8 f=135mm mounted on a Minolta X-700 body, Lyon, France, March 29, 2023 during a 9-km photowalk from my home to the Saône river banks.
I own this Minolta lens MD 1:2.8 f=135mm since December 2021 (bought in France for 60€) but I never really used it beside initial technical tests when adapted to one of my two Sony A7 bodies and I never did a film with it. The 135 mm focal length (X2.5 related to the normal 50mm) is a small telephoto lens with te advantages to be still light and compact enough to be used easily hand-held and not too difficult to carry in a photo bag. The lens is equipped with a build-in collapsible shade hood plus a Minolta AC 1B (Skylight) 55mm filter that I kept for the photo session for all the views except some with a circular polarizing filter.
For this film, the lens is mounted on one of my two Minolta X-700, the "China" version (assembled in China 1993-1999). The camera was also equipped with its motor drive MD1 and the Minolta multi-function back. The X-700 was loaded with a B&W super-panchromatic Rollei Retro 400S (Agfa Aviphot 400) 36-exposure film.
The Agfa Aviphot film used for aerial photography is specially sensitized in the red, up to 780nm in the near IR instead of the regular 650-680 nm limit of a normal panchromatic film. The film provides usually high-definition and high-contrast negative views. What is more, the Agfa Aviphot is coated on a thin and flat polyester base without any base color increasing the contrast as well. However to prevent the halation possible the Agfa Aviphot is coated on the backside with a black and blue anti-halation pigment to inhibit the light back diffusion (halation). The printing from a data back was tested here to print the date on the two-first frames and the time after the last frame while setting the printing LED's intensity to the medium value available (3 diamonds) on the Minolta multi-function back (there are 6 levels of intensity available).
Exposures were determined using the TTL system of the Minolta X-700 in the manual mode, privileging the shadow areas.
Montée de la Butte, March 29, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposures the film was processed using Adox Adonal (strictly equivalent to Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 10min30. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were then processed in LR and finally edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
Minolta X-700 MD 135
A test film of my Minolta MD lens 1:2.8 f=135mm mounted on a Minolta X-700 body, Lyon, France, March 29, 2023 during a 9-km photowalk from my home to the Saône river banks.
I own this Minolta lens MD 1:2.8 f=135mm since December 2021 (bought in France for 60€) but I never really used it beside initial technical tests when adapted to one of my two Sony A7 bodies and I never did a film with it. The 135 mm focal length (X2.5 related to the normal 50mm) is a small telephoto lens with te advantages to be still light and compact enough to be used easily hand-held and not too difficult to carry in a photo bag. The lens is equipped with a build-in collapsible shade hood plus a Minolta AC 1B (Skylight) 55mm filter that I kept for the photo session for all the views except some with a circular polarizing filter.
For this film, the lens is mounted on one of my two Minolta X-700, the "China" version (assembled in China 1993-1999). The camera was also equipped with its motor drive MD1 and the Minolta multi-function back. The X-700 was loaded with a B&W super-panchromatic Rollei Retro 400S (Agfa Aviphot 400) 36-exposure film.
The Agfa Aviphot film used for aerial photography is specially sensitized in the red, up to 780nm in the near IR instead of the regular 650-680 nm limit of a normal panchromatic film. The film provides usually high-definition and high-contrast negative views. What is more, the Agfa Aviphot is coated on a thin and flat polyester base without any base color increasing the contrast as well. However to prevent the halation possible the Agfa Aviphot is coated on the backside with a black and blue anti-halation pigment to inhibit the light back diffusion (halation). The printing from a data back was tested here to print the date on the two-first frames and the time after the last frame while setting the printing LED's intensity to the medium value available (3 diamonds) on the Minolta multi-function back (there are 6 levels of intensity available).
Exposures were determined using the TTL system of the Minolta X-700 in the manual mode, privileging the shadow areas.
Montée de la Butte, March 29, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposures the film was processed using Adox Adonal (strictly equivalent to Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 10min30. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were then processed in LR and finally edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.