Samples: Minolta MD Zoom 75-200mm F4.5

Samples: Minolta MD Zoom 75-200mm F4.5 There are the following versions of this lens: 1978: MD ZOOM ROKKOR(-X) 75-200 | Style: MDII 1981: MD ZOOM 75-200 | Style: MDIII mount: Minolta SR format: FF year: 1978 | 1981 max aperture: F4.5 min aperture: F22 elements/group: 15 in 11 aperture blades: 6 min focus distance (mm): 1200 filter diameter (mm): 55 length (mm): 155 weight (g): 630 (1) | 640 (2) additional information: lens shade: screw-in (1) | clip-in (2) This thread is open for C&C and for posting additional pictures. Please ONLY post pictures taken with the lens in the title- or start a new thread. Please state camera, version of the lens and adapter in your post!

As I guess/understand it, the MD 75-200/4.5 is a predecessor to the venerable 70-210/4 beercan. I know there's been some discussion about the 75-200 on the forum before, and later I may try to lookup stats on the lens and post them here (but not tonight).

Some samples...

This might have been wide open or might have been f/5. And I can't remember whether I remembered to take the junk UV filter off before shooting. Taken with a Nex 5N and Fotasy MD-E adapter.



"Unsharpened" crop (Lr sharpening at 0) - bearing in mind a shutter speed of 1/125 at what I think was 200mm, and there may have been a crummy filter on the lens as well. Foggy day, too. All things considered, I think it performs well...


I hope to share more samples in the future.

Edited by Micholand - 11 January 2016 at 18:38

An image from the MD 75-200mm and MD 70-210mm. Both of these have clip on metal hoods and like most MD lenses are a 55mm filter size. My main interest is in landscapes, I was curious to see just how well these old Minolta MD lenses would work on the full frame Sony A7R. I love the build quality of these old manual focus lenses. The real star from the Minolta MD zoom range is the MD 35-70mm f3.5 Macro. And the MD series look good also on the A7 cameras. Shot at ISO 500 to maintain high shutter speeds. The adapters I use and find to be an excellent fit I get from eBay, so cheap that I prefer to buy one per lens and leave it attached. I found the tolerances on these to be better than a much more expensive one from Fotodiox that I also have

MD-NEX adapters from Ebay that I find are very good





My Flickr Photostream

Edited by jeep - 21 January 2016 at 21:52

cyclists by Jos Mecklenfeld, on Flickr

lunar eclipse by Jos Mecklenfeld, on Flickr

thistle by Jos Mecklenfeld, on Flickr