I thought maybe I’d send my A700 back to Sony for repairs, it’s out of warranty as I bought it in 1/08. I’m having problems with the control dials and wide auto-focusing. The Sony service department informed me they charge $458 for a “flat rate” repair, which doesn’t include “excessive wear” from misuse or commercial use, repairing that’ll cost …
I’m adding another owner’s manual to the Minolta AF lens manual page, at the bottom. This one covers a bunch of prime lenses, in a bunch of languages, and dates from 1985. It also has specifications for each lens listed. I doubt you’ll learn anything new about your lens, but it’s still fun to see the original manual. …
Check out the new “Bokeh sampler page.” I think you’ll find some interesting comparisons and tidbits about Bokeh, which is the character of out-of-focus highlights, and how they are rendered. Bokeh can change with aperture, focal length, (zooms), from foreground to background, and from image center to corner for starters. Bokeh is very complex and mysterious, and …
Time for a random thought, because I have nothing else to offer at the moment; Sony has this Macro light adaptor in their catalog now. It’s purpose being so you can use the Sony DT 50mm F/1.8 SAM or Sony DT 30mm F/2.8 Macro SAM lenses with the macro ring light, (not the twin flash lights). I see a …
Check out the Minolta AF 50mm F/3.5 macro review. This light-weight and initially low-price macro lens was not very popular with Minolta AF users, and as a result, prices are steep for this somewhat slow, half-size macro. It’s also one of the few lenses where Minolta wrote the filter size on the barrel. A good trivia question would …
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Check out the one question survey, which lists 20 lenses, and asks which ones (up to three) you’d like to see reviewed. Click here to take survey, closed. I don’t know if I’ll actually be able to do a review of the top three, so we’ll just cross are fingers. This is my first survey, …