Product Description

50mm manual focus lens for Minolta cameras

Product Details

• Brand: Konica-Minolta
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x 9.00" w x 9.00" l, .75 pounds

Features

• For use with Minolta Maxxum Autofocus SLR cameras
• Focus and exposure data flow from lens' ROM integrated circuit to camera's central processing unit
• Manual focus now better dampened over previous generation lens
• Wide rubberized focusing ring

From the Manufacturer
This Konica Minolta AF 50mm f1.7 lens features improvements over the previous generation lens. The manual focus is now better dampened, and it has a wider rubberized ring.

The Minolta Maxxum Autofocus Lens System is one of the world's most complete lens systems, covering every kind of lens from wide-angle, telephoto, and wide-range zooms to large-aperture, reflex, and soft-focus types. Only Minolta Maxxum AF lenses are expressly made to link perfectly with your Minolta Maxxum AF SLR. Every Maxxum AF lens locks into your Minolta camera to form an integrated unit that allows focus and exposure data to flow from the lens' read-only memory (ROM) integrated circuit to the camera's central processing unit. Each Maxxum AF lens is a product of Minolta's advanced computer-assisted optical design. Minolta is one of the few camera makers to insist on making its own optical glass.

Customer Reviews

A gem in a small price
I own a former version of this lens. It is an autofocus lens and it can be used in manual focus mode. This one has a better grip on the focusing ring. This lens is built robust and the results are excellent. I keep it with me in case of serious sharpness is needed or there is not enough light to handhold.

Stopping down a few stops will give better results. I don't have the 1.4 version but the results are said to be the same after f:2.8.

Super Lens at a Super Price
This little 50mm f1.7 lens is very good for the price it's sold at. Granted, you get what you pay for, but what you get is a very fast lens w/ good bokeh. The built-in hood is a joke and there's no f-scale, but a good shootist can still get very memorable photos with this lens. If these items are a nuisance, then go get a good B&W metal hood and one of their excellent slim line UV haze filters and learn to judge distance. It's a good portrait lens on the 7D. BTW, to those who don't know, this lens is an auto-focus lens, hence MAXXUM. Maxxum means auto-focus. Getting this lens won't disappoint you.

Great AUTOFOCUS lens.
This is a great autofocus lens.It is a fast lens, colors are great (minolta color). Higly recomended.