Minolta Lenses
Oct 16, 2015 16:07:36 #
I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
Oct 16, 2015 16:09:58 #
mffox wrote:
I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
How would you control the aperture, since there is no separate dial for it?
Oct 16, 2015 16:24:56 #
Oct 16, 2015 16:46:40 #
mffox wrote:
A very good point!! Thanks.
I usually have one a day...I can go home now ;-)
Oct 16, 2015 17:50:26 #
Oct 16, 2015 21:18:28 #
Mumbler
Loc: Dublin, Ohio
Mumbler here,
Have had experience with Minolta lenses on a Nikon d50 and that's it. No matter what I did the pictures were soft and I couldn't produce a sharp image to please me.
Sorry.
Have had experience with Minolta lenses on a Nikon d50 and that's it. No matter what I did the pictures were soft and I couldn't produce a sharp image to please me.
Sorry.
Oct 17, 2015 05:58:45 #
I have the lens you named, I use it on a sony a-850. last year I used it at an air show and got fantastic fly-by shots.
Oct 17, 2015 06:37:02 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
mffox wrote:
I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
OK, now that you know you won't be buying it.
I have the Minolta 100-300 4.5-5.6 new style and the Minolta 75-300 4.5-5.6. The 100-300 is half the weight of the 75-300 (which ought to be named the TANK). The 100-300 surprised me with it's sharpness. It's light weight makes it an ideal walk around lens for distance shooting. On my Sony a77II it becomes a 150-450 mm zoom. I should have taken this lens to Alaska, being that it travels sooooooooooooo light. As far as a comparison between these lenses, I never have, but both are sharp and can be had very reasonable from e bay and other used places.
Oct 17, 2015 07:37:00 #
mffox wrote:
I have one. I also use it on my Sony a580. the auto focus works just fine and the I.Q. is superb. It is heavy though. I paid $20.00 for mine at a pawn shop. The local camera store has one for sale at $400.00. Still worth it. Be careful. The silver/grey ones are stack lenses. The black ones are the top of the line. Very durable.I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
Oct 17, 2015 08:20:54 #
mffox wrote:
I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
Check out metabones and fotodiox adapters. One of them should have one that will work for you.
Oct 17, 2015 08:27:03 #
Mumbler wrote:
Yeah, that's the problem with Nikons. Get yourself a Sony. ROFL :lol: :lol:Mumbler here,
Have had experience with Minolta lenses on a Nikon d50 and that's it. No matter what I did the pictures were soft and I couldn't produce a sharp image to please me. Sorry.
Have had experience with Minolta lenses on a Nikon d50 and that's it. No matter what I did the pictures were soft and I couldn't produce a sharp image to please me. Sorry.
Oct 17, 2015 08:31:39 #
mffox wrote:
There were four versions of that lens; if it's the "APO" or better still the "D APO", it would be well worth buying. An outstanding lens.I hear many favorable comments about Minolta lenses. Has anyone had experience with the Minolta AF 100-300, f4.5-5.6? I would be using it on an Olympus OMD 10. Comments would be appreciated.
Oct 17, 2015 10:52:05 #
Cdouthitt wrote:
How would you control the aperture, since there is no separate dial for it?
Some adapters have the ability to control the aperture - but they only index in numbers like 1,2,3,ect so you never REALY know exactly what aperture you are using - but you CAN control it.
Oct 17, 2015 12:05:22 #
imagemeister wrote:
Some adapters have the ability to control the aperture - but they only index in numbers like 1,2,3,ect so you never REALY know exactly what aperture you are using - but you CAN control it.
I know, but to my knowledge Minolta adapters for m4/3 do not have that capability. I believe we have them for canon...but they are very expensive...probably more than the op's em10.
Oct 17, 2015 12:12:46 #
imagemeister wrote:
Some adapters have the ability to control the aperture - but they only index in numbers like 1,2,3,ect so you never REALY know exactly what aperture you are using - but you CAN control it.
But you can get a sense of what aperture you are using by watching the change in the shutter speed. If I want to stop down two stops, I adjust the adapter's aperture until the shutter speed is 1/4 what it was when wide open.
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