Digging for Cameras & Vinyl

Written by Meiso Soul Management

This morning turned out to be a surprising day. Being in Central California (to me at least), I wasn't really setting out to go digging, but I happened across a yard sale. Amid a pile of plastic cameras, a compact metal camera caught my eye. Instead of being the normal broken or acid ridden camera from the 1970's, it actually turned out to be something I had been looking for for almost the last ten years.

For the curious, the camera is a late 1970's Minolta Hi-Matic 7sii a nice fast 40/1.7 lens with automatic exposure, AE. Even though it offers AE, the great plus is that it offers the ability to manually set the exposure (both shutter and aperture) so I can begin shooting without a battery. Obviously the 7sii is findable on eBay, but my goal has usually been to buy these type of compact cameras for under $20. So when I heard a price of $15, I checked out the camera thoroughly and snatched up the Hi-Matic 7sii, along with a couple of records.

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