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"And optical viewfinders don't take into account exposure length either" The Minolta X700 does do that via a secondary faux-shutter mechanism and a light senso
by lightedman 10y ago
"And optical viewfinders don't take into account exposure length either"
The Minolta X700 does do that via a secondary faux-shutter mechanism and a light sensor. If you actually bothered to have a battery installed (which dies after about 8 shots,) the tiny auto-exposure sensor inside would take over and the faux secondary shutter would move out of the way.
- Laforet 10y agoThe shutter in an X700 is timed electronically and won't work without battery power, a common fault occurs when one tiny capacitor in the timing mechanism fails, preventing the shutter from releasing. I have no idea what the faux shutter is because the camera had a fairly conventional horizontal fabric shutter. The actual innovatation is with the closed-loop AE mode where the camera will account for a faulty aperture or more importantly, non-TTL flash by measuring light reflected off the film in real time.
- lightedman 10y ago"The shutter in an X700 is timed electronically and won't work without battery power" Wrong. It's a mechanical shutter and the only two things the battery is used for is auto film advance and exposure metering. Trying to tell me something about a camera I've owned for over 3 decades and have had apart almost as many times is very un-wise.