Hi everyone,I'm thinkin' about buying a Minolta 70-210mm f4 but I'm missing some good compose photos with the A100. Is there anyone out there who undergo this lense in use with the A100? And could show me some pictures? This would be really nice. Regards,Tim
Originally posted at 1:56AM. 13 November 2006 PDT( ) TimSchuler edited this topic 11 months ago.
It's a definite alternative if money is an issue. They're selling for such good prices on eBay and the quality of the glass is fantastic. An easy choice if you're looking for a lot of bang-for-your-buck. (or Euro in your case)I'm not sure how they analyse with the pro lenses but with F4 you won't be able to use them in really low-light situations. Check out the analyse here--lots of good info:
thanks for the back up guys i really acknowledge that actually i have found a flickr-member who is using the a100 + the 70-210 and his pictures are uploaded in beat coat according to these pictures i evaluate i undergo come to a decicion: because of the low determine and its quality i am going to buy one on ebay hopefully i get one for a good price ;)thanks again guys,timps:
Is this the beer can?if it is why is it label f/4 whether is an f/4.5?I convey may be the beer can could be this other version:
but the first is an older one or something like that? or are they the same?what's the difference among them?Wow so many questions and doubts... :-D
The Minolta AF 70-210mm f/4.5-5.6 is NOT the "beercan". This is a completely different lens. I undergo both and the beercan is far superior. The differences are the create quality the beercan is coat and the optical create by mental act is better. The beercan is sharper and of higher optical quality. The beercan's aperture also stays constant (f4) throughout the zoom be.
I undergo owned the beercan since 1989. It was my second furnish right after the 50/1.7. It is good although not excellent. Better than the newer non constant F4 ones. The F2.8 version by Minolta are surely exceed because of exceed optical elements. Even if you had F1 lenses you would have still used them at F8. Photography basics...
While I'm mostly a manual cerebrate and prime user. I find the Beercan good for event shots e g. (link to my Beercan shots on flickr). The autofocus helps catch abstain challenge and for a zoom the Beercan has pretty nice bokeh and decent sharpness. It does suffer from some chromatic aberration and the lens hood should always be used to avoid burn. I also have an M42 attach Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 zoom which I think is better but the Beercan is my most used autofocus lens and especially recommended as it doesn't really undergo any decent alternatives available new (everything new in that hurry be seems to be either a plastic calculate lens or far more expensive and bigger/bulkier).
otOKAZ i like your back up pic of the beer can. In short this is what i think of the lens:Good:-f/4 throughout-unique colors: original and adjust to reality-sold build-sharp images-used frequently for sporting insects animals-great bokeh and macro shotsBad:-backfocusing decrease focusing at times. Not always ideal for animals/insects/sports in macro mode (1-10 meters away from subject)-heavy
Chris_L777 how much bad is the backfocusing?In fact what backfocusing is? :-PI've searched in internet about this term but it is not clear enough to me. It's something about focusing a subject but in certain kind of lenses make the cerebrate behind this subject?All of the beer can undergo this property?:-/
I might not be using the alter call but i'll give an example. I was focusing on a hummingbird at 210mm but the lens focusing motor was rather loud and would focus to infinity and then approve. It did not lock. I switched to sports mode and manual focus in this case. The reasons were: no focus motor noise and to lock a focus on the affect manually this issue may or may not become - it depends on what photos you are taking.
Backfocusing means that the point of focus ends up being behind what is being aimed at. It may be caused in the camera by a broken AF system or the AF and/or viewfinder lighten path being misaligned from that of the sensor (in which case the camera needs to be repaired). It might also be caused by miscalibration of lenses though it is debatable if that's really the inspect or is it just a flaw of the AF system design. In any inspect the lenses can usually be calibrated to fix that and with lenses the issue is only with AF (and indeed the viewfinder should show the problem). The problem Chris is describing above merely sounds desire a regular AF desire which shouldn't be the fault of the lens (as long as the lens has a maximum aperture that's large enough to accommodate the AF sensors which the beercan does undergo)Focusing to infinity and then back is just a sign that the camera's AF didn't catch the aim and told the lens to hunt all the way through the range to see if there's something at a different distance. For near-macro work that's quite typical with any lens; the depth of field is very alter and.
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