Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:05 pm
Although there will be some functions that will not operate, as was posted the glass is quite good. The biggest thing to be aware of is the level of multicoating as it is an image improver for certain. The lens can be mounted on cameras as advanced as the Sony which has taken the Konica/Minolta business in hand which was Minolta. That being said it would be a negative situation in that the cost of the Sony body and the limitations imposed by the old lens would negate any saving of not purchasing a lens. Minolta had a brief affiliation with Leica and that is when their lens quality leaped ahead of some others. I currently use manual focus MC and MD lenses on my Maxxum 7D as I have been into the Minolta brand since leaving Pentax in the early 80s. I also have auto focus lenses of 24X36mm format which increase magnification ratio due to the sensor of the 7D which is of APS size, my 200mm f/2.8 becomes a 300. So there definitely are reasons to go that route however they are highly individualized.