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Set a reminder for ten years from now and you can buy some great lenses for cheap.
by jzwinck 5y ago
Set a reminder for ten years from now and you can buy some great lenses for cheap.
- yazantapuz 5y agoExactly this. I have a A100 with several Minolta lenses bought online for a few bucks.
- mnw21cam 5y agoI had a Konika-Minolta 5D, which was a great camera for its time. After taking 55,000 photos the shutter mechanism broke, so a couple of years ago I thought about buying a Sony camera that could take my old lenses. Then I realised that actually all my old lenses were really bad quality, and an A7-III would need an adapter for them anyway. The only one that was vaguely decent was an old 400mm prime lens, but even that one I picked up for a pittance on Ebay a decade ago. So, I bought a Nikon. The modern lenses I have bought for that are miles better than the old lenses I had on my old camera.
- jrockway 5y agoThe first SLR I had growing up was a used Minolta with that mount. You can probably buy great lenses for cheap right now. (Yes, you'll have to turn a ring on the lens to focus them. It's not the worst thing in the world.)
- wl 5y agoJust keep in mind that those older Minolta lenses were designed for 35mm film. They'll be tend to be soft when coupled with a 36 megapixel full frame sensor, at least compared to modern lenses designed for high resolution sensors.
- jrockway 5y agoI think that if you're buying used lenses from the 80s, you probably didn't spring for the 36 megapixel full-frame camera.