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New Lenses--Minolta Vintage

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drfood

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Friday Jay and I went to Goody's in downtown McKinney. It's a candy store, but the owner has a corner where he sells vintage equipment, film, and gives advice [emoji16]

We found 3 Minolta Rokkor lenses that we need to play with next weekend. All 3 are in excellent condition. Only $50 total. I'm very happy..

Will post pictures after next weekend.

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Which rokkors? Any X?


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morfic said:
Which rokkors? Any X?


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Here's what we got--

  • Vivitar 200mm f3.5 (paid $10)
  • Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f2.0 (paid $30)
  • Minolta MC TELE Rokkor-PF 135mm f2.8 (paid $10)

I really wanted the 45mm because of everything I had read about the lens. So far just playing I really like it. The other 2 I couldn't pass us because there were in almost "like new" condition.
 
There are a lot of capable Rokkor-X out there, $30 is great.
Glad you didn't say the Vivitar is a Series 1 (that should be f/3)
Else it'd trigger a manual lens hunting relapse on my part.

Looking forward to images from the 45/2.0, would be a great portrait lens on a m4/3 body.


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SL350 said:
Did you see any similar Olympus Zuiko lenses?
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Wasn't paying attention to the other brands, sorry. Was fully engrossed with the Minolta glass. And hearing the stories he was telling about his past life as a professional photographer.

The really cool thing is he sell's REAL film of multiple types....including SX-70 film in B&W and Color. We're going to take our SX-70 up there in October to see if it still works.

He also offers developing services for 35mm and 120. I really want to shoot a roll of Ektachrome (yes he sells it) and see how good he really is.
 
morfic said:
There are a lot of capable Rokkor-X out there, $30 is great.
Glad you didn't say the Vivitar is a Series 1 (that should be f/3)
Else it'd trigger a manual lens hunting relapse on my part.

Looking forward to images from the 45/2.0, would be a great portrait lens on a m4/3 body.


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He did have a couple of Series 1 zooms (I believe they might have been 70-210). Good pricing too.
 
Never shot Ektachrome.
I was so happy with Velvia, I didn't look elsewhere.
I need to just go take more pictures and not drool over good old film equipment....again


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