The A-mount Lineup

I have notes for everything like the original poster, but I am at work and don't have it handy.. so, I do have reasons for keeping and selling.


Maxxum 7D
Maxxum 9
Maxxum 7
Maxxum 5D

Sigma 24/1.8 EX DG Macro
MinO 28/2 (NIB)
MinO 35/2
MinO 50/1.4
MinO 100/2
MinRS 100/2.8 Soft Focus
KM 28-75/2.8D
MinRS 28-105/3.5-4.5
MinO 70-210 "Beercan"
MinO 75-300 "Big Beercan"

Other Kits:

Minolta XD-11
Minolta XE-7
Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24/2.8
Minolta MC Rokkor-X PG 50/1.4
Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58/1.2
Minolta MD 85/2
Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 135/2.8
Minolta MC Rokkor 135/3.5
Minolta MC Rokkor 200/3.5
Minolta MC Rokkor 300/4.5

Minolta CLE
Voigtlander 28/1.9 Ultron ASPH
Minolta M-Rokkor 40/2
Leica 90/2.8 Elmarit v1

Bronica SQa w/ WLF, Prism, & Speed-Grip
Zenzanon 65/4 PS
Zenzanon 80/2.8 PS
Zenzanon 105/3.5 S
Zenzanon 150/4 PS

Other Extras....
Manfrotto 3221 Tripod w/ 3047 Head
Manfrotto Monopod
Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner
Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II scanner
Epson Stylus Photo R320
Minolta Auto CLE Flash
Minolta 5600HS (D) Flash w/ OC-1100
Sony HVL-F36AM Flash (x2)
Minolta Auto Meter IIIf
Kenko Extension Tube Set
Minolta and Contax Filters
SanDisk Ultra II (3)2GB, a 1GB, and a 512Mb
HP Compaq 6715b laptop, AMD Turion 64x2, 2.5GB Ram, PS CS2
Tamrac Expedition 5 5275 Photo Backpack
Tamrac TEK Digital case
2x Hard cases
Escort Limited Edition top loader photo bag



Sold!!
Maxxum HTsi
Maxxum 5D
Maxxum 7xi
Maxxum 7000s & Pentax Spotmatics
Maxxum 9000 w/ MD-90, Super Program Back 90, CG-1000 Set & 4000AF Flash
Hasselblad 500c w/ Zeiss 80mm C Planar, WLF, Prism, A12 Back.
Mamiya M645 1000s w/ every lens & metered prism finder.
Fujica ST801 w/ a couple EBC lenses
Kodak Retina IIa x2 (1 Heligon, 1 Xenon)
MD Rokkor-X 50/1.7
MD Rokkor-X 200/4
MD 300/4.5

MinO 20/2.8
MinO 24/2.8
MinO 50/1.7
MinO 100/2.8 Macro
MinO 135/2.8
MinO 24-50, 28-85, 35-105, 35-70, 100-200 (One of my collecting fits)
MinO 28-135mm
Tam SP 90/2.8

Pentax SMC Takumars.. 28/3.5, 35/2, 50/1.4, 85/1.9, 105/2.8, 135/2.5, 200/4 (another one)
Carl Zeiss Jena MC M42- Flektogon 35/2.4, Sonnar 135/3.5

Minolta M-Rokkor 28/2.8
Jupiter-8 50/2
Nippon Kogaku Nikkor 8.5cm f2 Chrome
Minolta M-Rokkor 90/4
Leica 90/2 Summicron Type II

YashicaMat 124G

Zorki-4

That is all I can really think of... :) I sold the Medium Format stuff because it was hard finding labs to do it anymore and getting to be a pain. Bought the YashicaMat just recently after I started developing my own Silver for the RF's.

Short Reasonable Wish List..:

Leica M3 & 50mm DR Summicron kit
Voightlander 15mm UW-Heliar, 35mm Ultron & Nokton, 50mm Nokton, Konica 90/2.8 M-Hexanon..

Minolta 200HSG & 300/4G.

Minolta MD Rokkor 135/2 & 200/2.8

Canon F-1(n) w/ 24/2, 35/2, 50/1.2L, 85/1.2L, 100/2, 135/2, 200/2.8IF, & 300/4L FD Lenses
Is that it??

Edited by bender21 - 31 March 2008 at 16:53

Update, since the airline has apparently lost my bag (no trace of it for 4 days)...

Bodies:
Sony a100
Minolta 7D + VC7D

Lenses:
Minolta 24-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D (missing)
Minolta 28mm f/2 RS
Minolta 28-70mm f/2.8 G (slightly defective, will repair)
Minolta 70-210mm f/4 Beercan
Sony 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Kit (missing)
Sony 50mm f/1.4 (missing)
Sony 100mm f/2.8 macro (missing)
Sony 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 STF (missing -- I didn't even get to try it once!)
Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 (missing)
Tamron 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 (missing)
Peleng 8mm (missing)

Flashes:
Minolta 3600 HSD (missing)

Edited by chmod007 - 19 September 2007 at 14:30

Minolta:
7D
VC-7D
17-35mm f2.8-4
50mm f1.4
35-105mm Macro
70-210mm f4 Beercan
70-200mm f2.8 SSM
300mm f4
3x-1x Macro
500mm Reflex

Sigma:
10-20mm
18-200mm
15mm Fisheye
70-300mm Macro
50-500mm Bigma
600mm Reflex

Other:
Hartblei 35mm tilt-shift
Hartblei 65mm tilt-shift
Arax 80mm tilt-shift
Sony 135mm STF
Tamron 180mm Macro

Rollover picture thingy on Flickr...

Body : 5D
(bought on business trip in USA, one day before KM/Sony announcement. Regretted it at first because of that, but Sony stepped up so now I'm not worried)
Update 2 Added in Jan 2008 : A700, also on a business trip in the US

Lenses (in order of aquisition)
KM 18-70 (with body, reasonably happy, as wide as I need)
Tamron 28-200 (birthday present, great walk-around lens)
KM 50/1.7 (2nd hand for 40 $, during a business trip)
Tamron 70-300 (also birthday present, useful 1:2 macro)
Big Beercan (from fellow Dyxum member, sharper than the Tamron but heavy and no close focus)
KM 24-105 (new in box during stock clearing sale > 1 yr after KM stopped)
KM 100/2.8 Macro D (new from B&H about 1 month ago)
KM 100-400 APO (From an ex Dyxum member)

Update (I'm becoming a lensaholic)
All bought from fellow Dyxum members:
Beercan
Tamron MC7 2x convertor
Kenko 300 Pro DG 1.4 x convertor

Update 3
Sigma 10-20/4-5.6

I probably have all the zooms I need now(or maybe a 70-200 SSM ?)
Lusting for some good primes (wide and/or 135). We'll see.

Updae 4 scooped up two M42 primes. Both Helios f 2.8. One is 35 mm and the other 135 mm. Both came with non-chipped adapters. Waiting for two chipped ones to arrive from JamesLaoT.

Edited by pegelli - 25 March 2008 at 12:08

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Edited by Paul07 - 15 September 2008 at 14:37

Well it's been a month or more since I've even considered buying or selling a lens so it seems I've finally settled on a kit so time to list it.

KM 11-18mm
CZ 16-80mm
Sony 70-200mm SSM
Sony 2x APO TC
This gets me from 11-400mm and all fits in one bag
Minolta 50mm 1.7 cuz it's cheap and makes a great portrait lens for shooting the Grandbabies.
Tamron 90mm 2.9 Di version for macro of course but also nice for portraits.

DS

For those of you who might be interested in what my new lineup is, now that I have switched to...ok, I'm going to say it - Canon. I really think it will be an enjoyable system, as there is nothing there that doesn't replace what I already had... or will it.

If you're really not that interested, or you're still mad at me for changing mounts, then please close your email or stop reading now.

Ok, here is what I had, and what I purchased to replace it.

       Minolta/Sony             Canonian equivalent
bodies: a700                      5d   (full frame)
              7D                         40d   (1.6x)

glass:   17-35/3.5 G            17-40/4 L
             28-70/2.8 G            24-70/2.8 L (very close focusing distance!)
             70-200 SSM            70-200/2.8 non-IS L
             Sig 30/1.4 DC          50/1.4
             85/1.4 G                  85/1.2 L
             50/3.5 macro           life size converter on 24-70 (acts like a 1.3x w/ a tube)
             Tam 90 macro          Tam 90 macro
             400/4.5 G                 Sigma 120-300/2.8 DG (w/1.4xTC to reach 400mm)
             135 STF                    135/2 L - should be really close to the STF results on the full frame camera. If you'd like to see some sample shots of this one, please let me know.

I, of course, picked up a Sigma 1.4xTC, which also works with all of the L glass, a 580x II flash (the equivalent to the 5600HSD), the $200 stinking ST-E2 transmitter that makes the wireless system functional, and an m42-canon adapter (with that cool AF confirmation chip in it), among other things, like center pinch caps for those crappy side pinchers that comes with all of their glass.

I haven't gotten the bodies in yet, but the Sigma 120-300 is here, along with the 125/2 and the 85mm. I plan on dropping a separate thread about the 120-300/2.8 after I get a chance to use it, as I am very excited to see what it can do. There is a gallery on the canon forum -
Photography on the Net that sold me on the ability to get to f4 at 400mm. That was my main concern with switching systems. I managed to take advantage of this rebate period Canon does twice a year, however, this year, the rebates were not 'doubled with more than one item' like in the Spring, and this period, no bodies were included. If this round of rebates had been the same as in the Spring, I would have saved an total of $1500, but with it just being 'single' and no bodies included, I only saved about $400.

Pricing for the items were very exciting, and reasonable, the 5d price has dropped considerably in the last year (I paid $2180 new), apparently, there's a mkII version coming out in February. Most of the replacement glass was purchased new, but I did manage to buy the 135/2 used (6mos old) and the 70-200 pre-owned, as my budget was getting tight closer to the end of my buying spree. It was nice not having to look so hard, compete in auctions and the like in the used marketplace for the good glass, and I believe I came out just about even, maybe a few hundred dollars in the red after all the accessories were purchased. The new glass .. most expensive was the 120-300 at $2100, the least expensive L (the 17-40) was only $650.

I really hope you don't mind me comparing what I had to what I now own...and comparing prices. I miss posting about gear... feeling the withdrawal already.