I recently bought a camera off of a remarkably charming and enthusiastic street seller. A Minolta 5000.
Minolta was apparently one of the first makes to produce a camera with the auto focus function. (you can see from the image it proudly bears the tag AF). built roughly one year before I was born, and within only a few hours of being together, I have built up a strange love for it.
It doesn't work, I suspected as much when I bought it, as the man who sold it to me admitted he finds his wears in 'skips', 'dustbins' and peoples doorsteps. I bought it anyway for peanuts and scurried on home with a wide grin on my face.
I want to bring it back to life but i have next to no knowledge of the technicalities or the mysteries that i take for granted every time I push the trigger. I am ignorant but am driven to know more!
I have a feeling the problem lies in the mirror. whenever i look through the viewfinder I see my eye reflected back at me. Is it as simple as nudging it a little? The mighty Minolta takes batteries and all seems ok there but it keeps asking or stating "program" at me. Is the camera rejecting a foreign lens like a body rejects a transplanted organ?
How hard it this to fix?
Where could I find cheap expertise?
Are there any other mighty Minolta owners out there with similar problems?
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