Originally Posted by
ShannonM
- My stepdad's dad's Minolta Maxxum autofocus SLR. I've never used a Minolta auto before. Sadly, when Minolta brought out the first autofocusing SLR, they had to change their lens mount to get all the parts to fit, so the older lenses ren't cross-compatible. Hopefully Minolta's AF lenses were as good as their MF ones, and as cheap to buy. We'll see.
--Shannon
It was a sad day for many of us when Minolta left the business. That's when I made the switch to Canon as I just could not do Sony.
Minolta has many, many top notch AF lenses. A huge chunk of my work was done with their glass. I just don't have any idea what kind of value is on it now.
24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2.0, 50mm f/1.7, 85mm f/1.4, 100mm f/2.8 macro, 300mm f/4.0, 1.4x Teleconvertor II APO, Tokina 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5, Tokina AT-X 80-200mm f/2.8 and Sigma 400mm f/5.6 APO
These taken with the 300/4.0:
My workhorse for many years, 28-85/3.5-4.5:
85/1.4:
Most of my Minolta work was captured on the thousands of Velvia slides I have archived in my basement.