SRT - 101

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It was the very first camera my father gave me when i was 17.I used it for over another 15 years and i still find this a great and indestructible camera and its probably why the SRT-101 has been one of the most used camera by war reporter during the last 40 years.

The Minolta SR-T 101 is a 35mm manual focus SLR camera launched in 1966 by Chiyoda Kogaku. Staying in production for ten years with only minor changes, proves the thorough effort being put into the development of the camera before the introduction. The construction is based on the innovative Minolta SR-7 model V camera of 1962. The SR-T however, has many significant features apart from the TTL meter. The most significant one is perhaps the full aperture metering facility, automatically compensating for the at any time fitted lens' maximum aperture, a feature it took twelve more years for Nikon to figure out how to accomplish. Full aperture TTL metering was commercially first realised in the brilliant Tokyo Kogaku Topcon RE-Super, a feature first realised in a screw mount camera by the introduction of the Olympus Kogaku Olympus FTL, their first full frame 35mm SLR in 1971, but which was abandoned one year later in favor of the OM system.



The SR-T has an extremely bright finder with a central micro prism focusing aid that in most cases proves to be very convenient, requiring no apparent lines in the motive, since all out of focus objects appear to shimmer. All relevant exposure information is visible in the finder, as well as a battery check index mark indicating the required needle deflection for a healthy battery when a switch on the camera base is set to BC.



The SR-T 101 was also made available in black. The top cover and the base plate are black enamel while most metal parts are black chromed, but the wind lever is black anodised. The parts still chromed include the shutter-release button, the mirror lock-up knob, the depth-of-field preview button and the lens-release button.

Famous Users
Annie Leibovitz
William Eugene Smith

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SRT - 101

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It was the very first camera my father gave me when i was 17.I used it for over another 15 years and i still find this a great and indestructible camera and its probably why the SRT-101 has been one of the most used camera by war reporter during the last 40 years.

The Minolta SR-T 101 is a 35mm manual focus SLR camera launched in 1966 by Chiyoda Kogaku. Staying in production for ten years with only minor changes, proves the thorough effort being put into the development of the camera before the introduction. The construction is based on the innovative Minolta SR-7 model V camera of 1962. The SR-T however, has many significant features apart from the TTL meter. The most significant one is perhaps the full aperture metering facility, automatically compensating for the at any time fitted lens' maximum aperture, a feature it took twelve more years for Nikon to figure out how to accomplish. Full aperture TTL metering was commercially first realised in the brilliant Tokyo Kogaku Topcon RE-Super, a feature first realised in a screw mount camera by the introduction of the Olympus Kogaku Olympus FTL, their first full frame 35mm SLR in 1971, but which was abandoned one year later in favor of the OM system.



The SR-T has an extremely bright finder with a central micro prism focusing aid that in most cases proves to be very convenient, requiring no apparent lines in the motive, since all out of focus objects appear to shimmer. All relevant exposure information is visible in the finder, as well as a battery check index mark indicating the required needle deflection for a healthy battery when a switch on the camera base is set to BC.



The SR-T 101 was also made available in black. The top cover and the base plate are black enamel while most metal parts are black chromed, but the wind lever is black anodised. The parts still chromed include the shutter-release button, the mirror lock-up knob, the depth-of-field preview button and the lens-release button.

Famous Users
Annie Leibovitz
William Eugene Smith

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For sale

 

Je vends le digger, je vais mettre mon projet de rod en route, faites une offre, avec ou sans papiers de 1971.
J'ai une boite 4 de Pan également 600€ et un cadre de Shovel 500€.

A couple more from '84..

Cal Davidson with Les and Helga Clemens in the background

Cal Davidson's original paint 47 Knuckle

Colonial Chapter Fall Meet, Somerville NJ

OK...so there's three, but I just liked the sound of "A couple more from '84".

I spent 1984 riding and beating up my first knuckle. I rode to everything I could and had a great time! It was the summer I turned 21 (drinking age was 18 back then so that wasn't significant) and I was unemployed and riding a 1947 Knucklehead. I didn't own a car at the time, I still my 71 HD police bike, but that just sat in the shed once the Knuckle was up and running. Great fuckin' year!

Cal Davidson had the nicest original paint knuckle I ever saw. He was the original owner and rode it all over. Les and Helga Clemmens were in their 60's back then and were two of the greatest people I have ever had the privilege to meet and call my friends. Les rode Indians and Helga Harleys. You can see her red 47 Knuckle in the background. It was a sight to see her Red, my White and Cal's Blue 1947 Knuckles lined up in a row.

Les Clemens was the real deal. He grew up in California and was at Hollister in '47. Their photo album looked like "Yesterdaze" on steroids. Great photos!

I'll dig some pictures up that I took over the years of Les and his bikes and tell a few stories in a future post.

TICOCHOPPERS 5to ANIVERSARIO

Summer of '84

Hard to believe this was 25 years ago! My 47 knuckle in it's first incarnation. I took these pictures on the road to the Empire Chapter AMCA Meet in NY State. I rode up with a bunch of guys from the Colonial Chapter (North Jersey). It was hard waiting up for the Indian guys all the time but we eventually got there.

The meet was held at the Electric City Riders club house back then. What a great place. They had a dirt track and all. The year before I had bought the frame for this bike at this meet. The following year (I think) the road washed out and they moved the meet to Pine Grove Farm and then to Brookfield NY. Now it's kinda of morphed into the "Rhinebeck Super Meet".

The amount of great stuff to be had at those old swap meets was incredible!

Nobbi's friend bike