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New to Minolta with gifted camera.

Started 11 months ago | Questions thread
MikeInOr
MikeInOr Senior Member • Posts: 1,630
Re: New to Minolta with gifted camera.

I have a 58mm 1.4 and mine is very good even on my Sony A7RIV. I have several other Minolta SR lenses that are similarly excellent. A good many of them are sharp with good contrast and nice rendering. Most of the issues I have with older lenses (of good quality) are with flare, ghosting and distortion. Fixing lens distortion on film isn't a quick click of the mouse like it is in digital.

I have a SRT 101 and SRT 201, they are both very nice cameras. That vintage body was a little heavier and bulkier due to being all mechanical which isn't necessary a bad thing. The X700 body and many other newer Minolta bodies are lighter and more compact. Probably a bit closer to what you are used to with your Pentax bodies.

I have several Minolta SR mount zooms that have come with bodies I have collected over the years.  I rarely use them and usually stick to primes when shooting film.  Modern computer modeling techniques have REALLY upped the optical quality of zoom lenses.  Older zooms are generally a series of compromises in one area or another.

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Sony SLT-A55 Sony a7R IV Sony 20mm F2.8 Sony 100mm F2.8 Macro Sony FE 12-24mm F4 +11 more
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