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I'm working my way towards a set of Sigma DG DN lenses as well, just need to figure out which will be most cost and work efficient. I love shooting with a 35mm f1.4, but the Sigma is fairly big compared with the Canon EF counterpart. The f2 version is way smaller but I feel I would miss the extra separation of f1.4.
yanchep_mike
Always Trying
Thanks for the advice, will try. The problem is not the camera, it is me, it feels like a betrayal, have only shot film last 10+ years, the same film and the same processing. No digital here.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Picked up some Minolta gear today -- SRT 102 with MD Rokkor-X 50/1.4 and 28/2.8 MD-X, and Asanuma 100-300/5, a lens I wasn't familiar with but seems very solid (Tokina-made I think). Also, a camera I didn't know before, a Minolta AL-F, cute smaller rangefinder with a 38/2.7 Rokkor. All fully functional, though the plastic tip on the SRT wind lever was long gone. I can deal with it. Also, a couple of flashes, some filters, a tripod, cable release, instruction booklets, and other bits and bobs. $75 on Craigslist.
Alpsman
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I caught one of the few 28mm f3.5 Voigtlander Skopar with Nikon S bayonet 
CMur12
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I really like Minoltas, myself, and you got a helluva deal!
My favorite of the SR-T line is the 102, and you got some nice lenses to go with it. Is this your first experience with Minolta?
Enjoy your new camera and lenses!
- Murray
mrtoml
Mancunian
Testing some baryta papers.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Oh gosh no -- I have a number of the SRTs, in several models, going back a long time now. They've always been quite inexpensive compared to other brands (why?), so if I see one at a good price I'm always tempted. (And you're right, it's SR-T, or is it Sr-T?
) I was short on the MD-X Rokkors, though, so I was happy to get those two (and I didn't have a 28/2.8 before).I like the 102 best also, I think -- hot shoe and aperture readout in the viewfinder are welcome enhancements from the 101. It doesn't have the mirror lockup, though, and the cool little adjustable film speed dial on the back. Those were probably cost-savings measures.
seany65
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This week I bought another Minolta 110 zoom slr mk2. It's a lter version with the logo in place of the letter O in the name. The focusing screen seems a tiny bit darker than the one I bought a copule of weeks ago, but the listing for that one says it has been "professionally cleaned" so perhaps that explains the difference?
Don't aks me why I bought this second one as I don't need it and I have no space for it, but it was cheap and I think I persuaded myself that " well, a spare can't hurt, can it?"
Don't aks me why I bought this second one as I don't need it and I have no space for it, but it was cheap and I think I persuaded myself that " well, a spare can't hurt, can it?"
Tuna
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Been putting it off but finally added a 50 mm to my lens set - the Leica Summilux.
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That's an amazing deal, assuming the gear is in good working order. Just the 50mm f1.4 goes for at least $75 on ebay. Minolta lenses are so good, I even use Dad's Minolta MC and MD lenses from the late 70s for my work.
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Great find. I kick myself for not having bought one years ago, when I could have worked it into the budget.
Godfrey
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The Hasselblad V-system CF Sonnar 180mm f/4 that I bought from a Japan based seller arrived today. It's perfect ... not a mark on it, shutter and aperture work properly at all settings, with caps, etc. Wonderful lens! Hopefully do some shooting with it soon.
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KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Everything seems to work fine except one of the flashes (I have a number of dead flashes), though no film through the cameras yet. The guy had it "priced to sell" to quote the posting. Today he asked me if I might be interested in his Maxxum 5 and 28-80, when he gets around to selling them (probably sooner than later; he saw a "live one" I guess). Depends on his price of course but that's a very decent amateur-level camera.
On the other hand, one favorite MC Rokkor, the 85/1.7, has a gummed up aperture. I've got the front lens group off but trying 91% isopropyl on the aperture assembly isn't doing it. I still can use it in full manual though -- use the little tab on the lens to stop it down (the lens won't work with the DOF preview button, disconcerting) and then turn the aperture ring to 1.7 to open it back up after exposure. I'd really like to fix this, but I've had misadventures with opening up Rokkors before.
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Let’s see how much I use it - I primarily shoot with a 35mm Summicron from 1969 and was tempted to get the new Leica 35 steel rim to replace it but decided to just get the 50mm I’ve always eyeballed. Now I will begin to save up again to eventually get the steel rim…
Godfrey
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If it suggests anything: I use the Summilux 35 v2 more than the Summicron-M 50, but only marginally more. When I think about it, I usually find myself carrying the 35/75 lenses as a pair, and the 50 alone or with a 21 or 28 mm to pair with.
I've also got the Voigtländer 10, and Leitz 90 and 135, and those I tend to carry alone. I guess, in my head, they're all radical enough that I don't switch between them and other FoVs very easily in the same session. The 10mm certainly is!
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seany65
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This week I bought a Minolta 110 zoom slr. It looks clean enough but there are one or two behaviours I need to check before deciding whether to keep it.
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I never really gelled with 50mm until I bought the Summicron 50 v5. It completely changed how I think about 50mm because of its lovely rendering and clean, crisp look. Then came the Zeiss C Sonnar ZM, the Voigtlander collapsible Heliar 50mm f3.5, I just really got into 50's. So the Summilux 50 is something I ought to have bought when able. My other most used lens is the Zeiss Distagon 35mm f1.4, it's an unreal lens.
Michael Markey
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Recent purchases ... two Voitlander lenses .
A 35 and 75 both in BP to go with my M4.
Madness .
A 35 and 75 both in BP to go with my M4.
Madness .
skahde
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You can't have too many 50 mm lenses! They are all different, even among the best and so many are worth keeping for one reason or another. And I also needed a few years until a repeated affair with the Summicron v5 and v4 told me what a humble fifty can do. I justed added the fourth 50 mm LTM-lens, third Canon, to the collection. After 1.8 and 1.5 in chrome I also got myself a nice 1.4/ 50 mm to go with the VT which just returned from getting new shutter-curtains.
Mcary
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A Schneider 90mm F8 Super Angulon lens with Copal 0 shutter and Orange filter for use on my Crown Graphic 4x5.