Shutterbug Strasse

Posted by 5664564 on July 05, 2004 at 06:45:40

In Reply to: Re: Don't forget to check out Minolta... posted by SET Man on June 28, 2004 at 17:49:55:

Actually, this is a little known piece of photographic heritage: Minolta some time back. I would only estimate that it was not 13 years back but somewhere 25-30 years back. At that time Minolta did their normal mechanical cameras, they were OK, nothing special and suddenly totally out of blue they did something absolutely ingenious: 50/1.8. It was a default optic with many of their cameras along with their 50/1.4 and it cost no money. However, what that 50/1.8 lens did image-was was absolutely remarkable. Even the Zeiss Planar lenses did not work as interesting as that Minolta 50/1.8 did. It was pretty much the only serious product Minolta even did and I am sure it as a accident and thy themselves did not even knew how spectacular the Minolta 50/1.8 was…

Yep, those time are long gone..,
The Puss

• you sure have some big opinions..... - danj 00:17:30 07/14/04 (2)
  • Re: you sure have some big opinions..... - 3453434 15:52:57 07/14/04 (1)
    • If I could buy your opinions for what they are worth.... - danj 00:13:56 07/15/04 (0)

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