Looking back at the Minolta AF 100-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 APO, a lightweight and versatile vintage A-mount telephoto superzoom on an APS-C digital SLR.
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The Minolta AF 100-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 APO, introduced by Minolta in 1993, is a lightweight and versatile A-mount telephoto zoom lens that can be used seamlessly on both Minolta/Konica Minolta 35mm AF SLR cameras and Sony Alpha digital SLR cameras. The lens-mount system was introduced by Minolta with the launch of the Maxxum AF 7000 (7000 AF in Europe and α-7000 in Japan) 35mm SLR film camera, the first camera to feature both integrated autofocus (AF) and motorized film advance. The lens-mount system was carried over to the Sony Alpha series when Sony took over the brand.
The vintage, with 11 elements in 10 groups and two AD elements to help minimize chromatic aberrations, has 9 circular aperture blades, measures 75mm in diameter across and 100mm in length, has a minimum focusing distance of 1.5 meters, an electronic zoom mechanism, weighs 440 grams, and takes 55mm filters. While the lens is compatible with all Minolta and Sony A-mount cameras, including film and digital models, the lens is equivalent to a 150-450mm superzoom when mounted on a digital SLR with an APS-C sensor.
As my interest is not within the wildlife and sports action genres, excellent avenues where the lens can be put to its best use, images for this album page are shot within the ambiance of my locality. The lens, mounted on a Sony DSLR-A350 performs extremely well with high-contrast images that offer decent sharpness, better when stopped down to 1:6.3 or 1:8, and remises what the great 'Minolta colors' are all about.
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Sony DSLR-A350
Sony DSLR-A350
The DSLR-A350, Sony's top-tier consumer SLR for 2008, fitted with a 14.2MP APS-C CCD sensor, has the second-highest pixel count for an APS-C format DSLR at the time of its launch (after the Pentax K20D, which has a 14.6MP CMOS sensor). The camera has an electronically-controlled focal-plane shutter with a speed range from 30 to 1/4000 second, plus B, flash sync at 1/160 second, ISO sensitivity from 100 to 3200, a 2.7 inches 230,400 pixels LCD screen, and a unique Live View mode that no one else has. Metering is Multi-segment, Center-Weighted, and Spot.
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