Sigma Lens
May 8, 2012 11:26:56 #
Just wondering if anyone is familiar with this lens? Picked it up in a garage sale for $1.00 but don't have a clue what camera it will work with, how old it is or what it's really worth. I would appreciate any info if someone is familiar with it. It is all metal and the instructions are in five languages and came with a leather case. Maybe it's just a conversation piece for the shelf.
May 8, 2012 13:32:05 #
May 8, 2012 13:35:31 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Its an old Sigma 80-200mm zoom for Nikon (I think)manual cameras.
It's an 80-200
f/4-5.6
1:3:7 macro
May 8, 2012 13:36:33 #
Ok MTShooter...I'm confused.
When I replied your post didn't say what it says now....lol..
When I replied your post didn't say what it says now....lol..
May 8, 2012 13:42:24 #
I just downloaded your last photo and noticed the notch in the third bayonet. That would likely indicate this lens is for a Minolta or Yashica body.
May 8, 2012 13:42:54 #
rpavich wrote:
What does "1:3:7 macro" mean? MFD is 1-meter = 3.3-feet. Hardly macro!It's an 80-200, f/4-5.6, 1:3:7 macro
May 8, 2012 13:44:04 #
rpavich wrote:
Ok MTShooter...I'm confused.
When I replied your post didn't say what it says now....lol..
When I replied your post didn't say what it says now....lol..
I had Nikon one the brain and typed the wrong thing then changed it when I saw my mistake. Than I downloaded the third pic and the mount is clear in that one.
May 8, 2012 17:46:58 #
Thanks guys, I guess it will become a conversation piece as I don't have any of the cameras you suggested. Any idea how old it may be? I thought Sigma used ABS casings and this one seems to be all metal & fairly heavy for its size,
May 8, 2012 18:01:58 #
I would say the early to mid eighties from the looks of it. No date on the instruction sheet anywhere?
May 8, 2012 18:21:42 #
Not that I can find in English.
MT Shooter wrote:
I would say the early to mid eighties from the looks of it. No date on the instruction sheet anywhere?
May 8, 2012 19:02:00 #
I looked at the downloaded picture of the mount and enlarged it. I could not get great clarity, but it seems that if this for minolta it is not AF but could be a MC or MD lens for minolta. Dpullman might have a better answer for you. Does this lens slide or turn? If it slides it looks similar to a Quantaray lens that have; Quantaray is a Sigma brand also, although the quality might be suspect when compared with newer Sigma lens.
May 8, 2012 19:10:52 #
its clearly a manual focus film camera lens, for what mount i do not know. perhaps emailing a photo of the mount to sigma might help
May 8, 2012 19:15:36 #
Here are pics of the MF Minolta and Yashica mounts. Both show the angled notch in one of the three bayonet flanges.
Minolta MD
Yashica/Contax
OP's Sigma sample
May 8, 2012 19:50:31 #
From MTShooter's pictures that bayonet looks like it is Minolta. Could it be an MC lens? I looked at my lens and there is nothing in this configuration, although all my Minolta lenses are AF.
May 8, 2012 19:52:33 #
chapjohn wrote:
From MTShooter's pictures that bayonet looks like it is Minolta. Could it be an MC lens? I looked at my lens and there is nothing in this configuration, although all my Minolta lenses are AF.
Minoltas old MF mounts were totally different from their later AF mounts, same difference as Canon did, making all the earlier lenses obsolete.
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