Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina: I have a good friend in PA who shoots mainly weddings and all he shoots with are the Minoltas. His work is excellent and the quality of his images will stand with the best. I worked with the Minolta cameras at the Expo East in NYC and found their current offerings to be very fast AF and excellent glass. The test images that I did looked very good. One other point, Robert Farber (fashion and art photographer, based in NY) has several books out that were shot with the Minolta system (their early 9000 bodies) and the color and detail is excellent. Most (or at least a lot of the images ) of the images in his book "By The Sea" were shot with the Agfa 1000 slide film, so these images have a grainy old world look. This combined with the Minolta Glass is an excellent combination. Also I believe the 24mm 2.8 R lens is a Minolta design (please no flame throwers) and I love the color and sharpness of this lens (stays on my R8 most of the time) Cheers Wilber - ----- Original Message ----- From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] AF SLR for Leica Users > At 06:18 PM 1/21/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Pascal jotted down the following: > > > > >> Minolta = Good optical quality, but slow AF speed and no digital body. > > > > > > Forget Minolta. > > > Why? > > Minolta was all I could afford before I got my Leicas. They are fine > cameras with some pretty good lenses. The 85/1.4 is a fantastic lens that > I still use and the fast 200 is very good, too. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com >