I’m always on the lookout for interesting new/old lenses – particularly old Minolta AF lenses which will work on my Sony DSLR. I was browsing around and I came across this lens, which had good reviews. I managed to find an inexpensive example so I snapped it up.

Even from a relatively short test I really like this lens. It produces the typical Minolta really good colors and is generally sharp especially when stopped own a bit. It’s small and light and feels well made. I like the fixed f4.5 and the reasonably fast focus as well as the decent out of focus areas. On the negative side the minimum focusing distance is rather long at about 6ft. I’ve read that it flares badly but havent’ experienced this in my admittedly limited test. All things considered a pretty good lenses and bearing in mind what I paid for it extremely good value for money.

Sails on the Lake.

One of my wife’s roses – nice out of focus areas.

Chrysanthemums

Another flower – don’t know what kind. I liked the out of focus areas.