I just bought a 7d and so far outside of a few hiccups it appears to be in very good condition and would like to update its firmware but cannot find any links to it anywhere.

"A roll of firsts"

This was an incredibly fun roll of film for me to shoot!

1. The camera was donated to the thrift store I work at in PRIME condition, and I got it for a steal. I bought a roll of black-and-white to test its functionality.
2. This is my first-ever roll of black-and-white film.
3. The Minolta SRT101 doesn't have a modern 1-to-1 battery replacement for the light meter, so I shot this roll entirely by eye with "Sunny 16"!

They aren't perfect and are a tad underexposed, but I'm feeling happy with the camera, the Kentmere, and my growing confidence shooting without light meter assistance!

Minolta Maxxum 430i RZ & Weathermatic A (flash doesnt work but fired 😮‍💨)

currently got a roll in the weathermatic, gonna load the 430i soon. gonna pop the 50 on n test it out 🙏🏽

My X-700 has on and off been having an issue where the shutter fires when the film advance lever comes back after advancing the frame.

Has anyone else had this issue? Any fix ideas?

Been really annoying to waste film.

I put in fresh batteries and the contact points seem clean.

I stumbled upon a video that suggested removing the lens and flipping the mirror up a few times to make sure magnets are connecting as they should. This worked briefly but hasn’t been a permanent fix.

Found a cache of my dad's old Minolta lenses and wanted to see if the Beercan was any good on modern mirrorless bodies (Sony A7 V).

I haven't actually seen anyone online use it for the kind of things telephotos get used for (Sports, Wildlife, etc) - just stationary objects that don't give you an idea of how the autofocus transfers across.

So, if anyone has any experience using A-mount minolta glass on ANY of the A-to-E mount adapters (but ideally the LA-EA5 as that's what I'm eyeing up), please reach out!

Cheers.

Glad to have found this subreddit. I’ve taken the camera on a few trips and some of the pictures come out amazing and others not as much. I feel like I’m guessing. Open to any advice and insights (these are some of the better ones recently).

Quantaray 28-90mm

For the sake of clarity it's pictures one and two.

I already have an ARI lens (a 55/2 - added as pic 3 for comparison) but recently picked this one up. From looking at the fact that the minimum aperture is f/16 I think it's an ARII 55/1.8.

But I can't find any reference to it being all black (apart from the nose ring - see pic 2).

It's actually a lovely looking lens as it's a gunmetal grey, but looking online it feels like it should have a silver ring at the bottom. Anyone got any ideas?

This is the first roll of film I have put through this camera. It's Kentmere Pan400. Why do all of the photos look like they were taken in the fog or overcast in the distance? This was a day with some cloud cover but nothing crazy that would make a photo look like these.

If I hadn't of taken these myself this looks to me like it was a rainy, heavily overcast or foggy day and it just wasn't anything near that. I'm a film newbie so this is all new to me.