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Last year, while on holiday, I purchased an old style Minolta 75-300mm lens to compliment the KM 5D. I don't use this lens with the A37 as the camera body is rather small and light, and it is rather difficult to hold. There would appear to be some problems with some STL cameras and some Sigma lenses, but in this case there were none. It also works fully with my A450 and A37. This lens is the Sigma 70-210mm F2.8 APO lens (the pictures and illustrations are identical). Funny enough, the focusing didn't seem to be affected with the converter, the same slow rate. (Earlier I had given my Sigma 70-300mm lens to my daughter), so I was stuck at 180mm, but I had the 2x Converter to fall back on. Provided I kept to this limit, it does the job for me. I found that if the extreme long length of the lens was used, passed 180mm the quality dropped off. The next step was to carry out some field work. Anyway, I tried it on my KM 5D and everything seemed to function. The first thing about this lens was the size and the weight. This was the time between KonicaMinolta leaving the photographic market and Sony entering the DSLR market. (I still have my "old" Konica 35mm SLR kits with its collection of Konica and Vivitar lens, etc.).Īlong with this lens I bought a Vivitar 2x Converter. I did a little bit of research, but I couldn't find any details or mention anywhere.īut I decided to buy it anyway, because in the distant past I used Vivitar lenses and accessories and always was impressed with them. Lens was advertised as an used Vivitar Series 1, 70-210mm F2.8 APO Zoom Lens. While the focusing was slow there was very little hunting. Sturdy, Internal focusing, Sharp, Nice colours. This lens did not come with a flare cover, having a very hard time finding one online. Capable of cropping with very good detail. Took some Autumn wedding pics last weekend with overcast skies, dropped the lens to f4, f5.6 and the results were spectacular. Chromatic aberration is much worse than my Sigma 70-300 APO DG, expected and accepted. Unfortunately soft at 2.8 and at the end of the focal length, if stepped down, very sharp but still quite usable at 2.8. Same build from what I'm told as the Sigma.
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This is also a Vivitar Series 1 10th anniversary edition. Large heavy lens so fits better on the A700. Used mainly on my A700 but also works great on my A100. no, I will probably keep them both.Īchromatic aberration present in most pics The 24-240 seems safe due to convenience but the other 2. I have to do a shoot-off with all 3 lenses at similar focal lengths and determine which 2 I will be keeping. Overall, very pleased.except for the weight. DX011 identifies the lens as a Sigma 70-200 f2.8, a Minolta 70-200 f2.8 and occasionally as a Minolta 70-210 f4. Contrast is slightly less than ideal, perhaps the haze? A bit of processing with DX011 and improvements are very good. Not as sharp as my RX10M3 BUT the FF sensor shows details the 1" just will not bring out. Sharpness is great though the range and even wide open. Now, no adjust is required and infinity is perfect. Prior to this, I was shooting with a micro focus adjust of +10 or so. Aligning the helicoil (sp?) was a pita but got that done and set the front group to infinity.
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I believe I see a very, very faint hint of haze on the inner element, front facing, but I can't figure out how to get that section separated. Looked fine so oiled a bit and seems much smoother. I could not find much on disassembly and even Sigma does not have a schematic, this is the ZEN version, so I got in as far as I could, blew off some dust and removed the front barrel to check out the drive ring.
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Not wanting to damage my la-ea4, I figured I would dive in for a look. I un-stickied the body, removing most of the graphics in the process,found the focus ring a bit growly when pointing upwards and on one occasion, the focus seemed to bind. As I was not expecting to use this too much, having a G 70-300 and FE 24-240 but I wanted the 2.8 so figured $100 CDN all-in not too large a risk. I purchased this as-is with a case of the Sigma stickies,optics unknown. But I have had missed shots with the G 70-300 (via laea4) and 24-240 as well. Very sharp throughout and good to the edges (which is a surprise). G 70-300 (4.5), FE 24-240 but shoot off has not yet occurred.