Extremely sharp from f 2.4 and onwards. A very well built lens.

A little soft at wide open, but this is expected and no surprise.

If you need a really fast normal lens, this is the best Minolta has to offer. Buy it and try it, you will be amazed by the quility of the retults.

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Minolta 50mm f/1.7
Minolta 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5

well buit and very sharp lents

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This is my first fixed focal lens. I was surprised with the quality!! After using this lens, I have almost stopped using my zoom lens! :)

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1) Very sharp
2) True colors
3) Perfect contrast

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Perfect Lens !!

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Other lenses used:
Minolta 20 mm f 2,8
Minolta 24-50 mm f 4-4
Minolta 135 mm f 2,8
Minolta 100-300 mm Apo f 4,5-5,6

Sharp, Relatively Cheap

fixed

Just bought the 50mm f1.4 off eBay and compared the sharpness to my 50mm f1.7 and my consumer zoom at 28-80mm and high quality zoom at 28-85mm both zoomed at 50mm. I took the pictures and recorded the results on notepad. I mixed the pictures up (they had frame stamps on the back) and picked out the best images out of around 5 various scenes thoughout the city. Anyhow, in each test I was able to pick out the the 50mm f1.4 as the best image. It was really difficult to pick it apart from the 50mm f1.7 but for some reason out of 5 various scenes, I picked the f1.4 as the winner 5 times. The zooms were easy to differentiate especially at the edges. But the 28-85 (no longer made) beat out my new 28-80mm consumer zoom which came in last.

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never needed

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Maxxum 50 f1.7
Maxxum 28-80mm
Maxxum 28-85mm

Great sharpness, quick autofocus, perfect color, light weight, lots more...

none, except maybe that you have to move your feet to compose without a zoom lens.

I agree with all the other positive comments listed above and just wanted to add one other point for those of you considering this lens. I bought this lens as an answer to low-light autofocus problems with my camera. It is great for that purpose!! The f/1.4 lens allows 8 times as much light as my zoom lenses that primarily start around f/4.0. This is a godsend when shooting in low light light wedding receptions, theater performances, etc... Even if you use flash and stop down a bit for the shot, this lens will make sure you get the focus dead on first.

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not needed yet.

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Minolta 35-80, Quantaray 28-80, Tamron 28-200 super, older manual focus Minoltas

Excellent sharpness and contrast
Distortion free
Well damped manual focus ring
Supplied with lens hood

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This is a fine general purpose lens. It should prove more than adequate for taking full advantage of the 35mm format.

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Ulta-high Sharpness
Built Quality
Weight
Size
No compression and degradation.

None.

This is most appreciated lens by the expert photographers all around the world. It has focal length of human eye. No curves, no distortion, no vignetting and compression. It offers
natural colours equivalent to human eye. If love photography buy this lens. Buying this lens means buy a human eye. Shoot things the way they look. All-purpose photography lens. I took shot of trees in summer. The picture came so sharp and detailed that I can count every single leaf in the picture and size of the photograph was 4X6!

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Never required.

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Zenit 50mm f/2

1. Vivid image and reproduce image as human eyes see,
2. Very sharp.
3. Well balanced color and it is very natural

1. plastic feeling body

1. This lens well reproduced object in sharpness and color, and contrast in good balance. It gives very similar images to what I got from Contax sonnar 85mm MM and Pentax 35mm/2 FA AL. Excellent
optical performance and chaep.

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never contacted

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1. Minolta AF 50mm F2.8 macro
2. Sigma 50mm F2.8 Macro EX

Excellent sharpness
True to natural colour
Easy to handle
Very robust

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Great value for money. An excellent lens to carry around.

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Never contacted

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Minolta 35-70mm
Signma 35-80mm

sharp

Well, it's as flexible as you expect for a fixed length lens.

A much better lens than either the 70-210 or the 28-80, but of course that's not very surprising, it is a fixed length lens.

I don't use it much, except in places where the 50MM length is pretty nice AND I'm wanting a really sharp picture. Then it's awfully nice to have. It's also handy for those birthday parties where somebody hates flash ;_) That and some NHG2-800, that is.

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