Sharp, very fast focus, marvelous bokeh, very well build, build-in lenshood, light (for the aperture it provides, and compared to zooms with the same aperture)

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If you get hold of that lens cheap, get it. It's worth the money. Even if it's the old version, it can't get any better. The bokeh of the lens is just great. And it focus fast with a 700si/9xi. It's one of my favorite lens. Using the Minolta TC 1.4 slows down the AF speed thought, but it's a great combo.

Customer Service

not used for that lens, but customer Service of Minolta in Switzerland, it's great so far.

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Very sharp, Fast focus, light, smooth manual focus control

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I like this lens a lot althoug i'm going to return it for a zoon lens soon. Nothing wrong with it, but it is not as flexiable as 80-200mm f2.8.

I shot one roll of film on campus, the pictures came out very very good. I was amazed by the sharpness and color. It has very fast autofocus with Maxxum 7. The manual focus ring has the smoothest control i have ever used. The lens itself is pretty light, but the optical quality is great. I will for sure to miss this lens.

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Extremely sharp, well build, excellent color reproduction, good looking!

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I have been using this lens for 9 years, and would happily recommend it to any Minolta user who can live without the flexibility of zoom lenses. In short, one of the best telephoto lenses money can buy!

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