Review 5 of 23
Price Paid:
$60.00
from jacobs [english mone Summary: After all that i read about this lens i couldn't hold myself back when i found one for the small price of £60 [english pounds].
At the time of purchase i was doing a lot of b&w with HP5+ [developing and printing myself]. When i came to make the prints [10" x 8"] i was dissapointed really, with the quality. I then purchased an el-nikkor 2.8 enlarger lens and things did improve, but i couldnt understand the hyp from other users. I assumed there was something i was still doing wrong so i put in a roll of fuji reala, did some portraits and sunsets and had it printed at 8" x "6. WOW! This is what i was looking for... and a little more. Great sharpness, colour, bokeh, contrast - nothing optically you can fault. I now obviously use finer grained b&w film when i want sharper results [at the moment HP4 and Pan50].
I havent tried it yet personally [havent had a photo worthy of it] but i hear you can get prints up to 16" x 12" with absolute clarity.
This lens is great! Not one to be missed! If you have the money to spend [60 quid?!] and you are a minolta user you should be really questioning why you dont have the lens! [that is unless you have the 80-200 2.8] Strengths: -Sharp!
-Great bokeh!
-Sturdy, metal build
-You can say that you have a lens that was atleast designed by leica [if you dont have an expensive leica collection tha is - dont we all? :-$ ]
-Great focal lens range:
--idea for portraits
--useful for isolating landscape detail
-1:4 macro repoduction can be useful Weaknesses: Isnt as heavy as people make is out to be... you really shouldnt be put off by this 'feature'. Similar Products Used: 50mm f/1.7 rokkor
100mm f.4 macro rokkor
Customer Service: never needed to use it but i hear Sony will do minolta repairs now
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