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There are zooms and zooms and zooms. The 35~70 mm Rokkor is a minor leaguer among Rokkor zoom lenses in terms of optics and design, but it a wonderful fill-in for every camera bag. It is extremely lightweight: I use it as a companion to a more exotic Rokkor 24~35 mm zoom, but it also makes a perfect companion to a 50 mm or 45 mm, with extender. You can pack a lot of "firepower" around all day long, with a lightweight zoom in this range, a sharp small lens, in a medium or small camera bag -- leaving loads of room for film. You might want to consider it as a basic lens: it covers the range from landscape to a portrait length [sorta, almost], and kicked up with any old 2x extender will give you a surprising number of options. But if you hike, backpack, bike, or do any outdoors things,even goof off at farmer's markets Saturday morning, you can get away with this as your one lens, though, as I mentioned, I would add a 2x extender and a circular polarizing filter [the one with the little lever on the ring if you can find one. You fingers will thank you: they are about 10 times easier to use than the other kind.] These are extremely well priced because they are ordinary among Minolta lens, basically a kit lens that still shares a rich design tradition with its more exotic [and pricey] kin.Read full review
Minolta lenses are legendary for their true color and sharp photos. This lens is no exception. We bought this lens for resale. It is well built, focuses fast, and looks great. If you have a Sony digital camera with all of that wonderful technology you need to get Minolta lenses to realize that full potential of quality photos... that is unless you want to spend thousands of dollar buying comparable Sony "G" series lenses. ABOUT MINOLTA LENSES FOR SONY DSLRs Minolta lenses are built much better, take sharper pictures, and are legendary for their fabulous true color reproduction. SONY partnered with Minolta to get their legendary lens technology, and then started making all of their newly designed cameras with lens backwards capability so that you can use these fabulous Minolta classics... so if you have a Sony DSLR… great news! This lens is fully compatible with your SONY camera including the incredible new A55 and A33 models. If you bought a new Sony camera WITH ALL THAT FABULOUS NEW TECHNOLOGY and you have been using a “kit” lens that came with it or a secondary manufacturer lens like Tamron or Sigma, you are not even close to realizing the full potential of the beautiful pictures you could be taking. If you bought a lens from a secondary manufacturer like Tamron or Sigma for your A33 or A55 it’s only a matter of time before you start getting lens error messages and have to reboot your camera every few shots, believe me I know, it happened to me with 2 different lenses. I wish I wouldn't have wasted my time with the new plastic lenses and gone with Minolta lenses in the 1st place. You can’t match the quality per dollar of Minolta against any other brand including Sony’s own lenses! In summary, If you are not shooting with 1 of these fabulous lenses, buy 1! Resell your current lens right here on ebay to offset your cost. If the 28-135MM that usually goes for only $350-$450 is too much for your budget buy combo sets that cover a wide range and usually go for only $99-150. Definitely put the 28-135 on your wish list, and as soon as you can afford 1 it will be the best lens you will ever own! IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY SHOPPING FOR A FABULOUS NEW SONY DSLR DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A MODERN PLASTIC LENS... Buy the camera body and whether or not you buy a lens from us, get yourself a great Minolta lens!Read full review
This Minolta classic is a good choice, if you're looking for this particular range of coverage. Good classic Minolta optics. Finding one may be a problem, though - as it wasn't the most popular choice when in production, and I see very few show up on the Used market in decent condition. A viable alternative would be the later (and lighter) 35-80 design - a fine 'kit' lens which is in more plentiful supply. Other later 'kit' grade variants include a 28-80 and 28-100 - both of which exhibit a problem with vignetting (shadowing) of the corners at 28mm (on film cameras), but that disappears when they are used from 35mm on up. Used on the Sony Alpha 100 Digital, the problem disappears altogether, because the camera works with less than the full image circle of the lens (the '1.5x crop factor').Read full review
I needed to replace the kit lens on my Sony a100. I was hunting some Elk in the Great Smokie Mountains Park. It was one of those days, raining, cold and the only pictures I was able to get were of Elk butts. Anyway the lens became very wet in spite of all precautions, and 2 weeks later the focus mechanism froze. Great opportunity to purchase what I have really wanted, a Minolta beer can. A wonderful purchase. Delivered almost before the auction was over. I couldn't be happier!
Very easy to use and the clarity of shots are priceless. The interchangeability, additional features and accessories associated with this lens is really great. I've been using it with several different Minolta's.
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