
Good except for a small problem or two......
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This is one of the 'kit' lenses from the latter days of Minolta. It is very lightweight, of a plastic barrel construction. It also has a plastic Mount - which is often criticized as 'not being as strong' as its predecessor metal mounts, but I haven't had a problem with them.
The Optics are good, as we all expect from Minolta......except for one little detail. This lens (and its 28-100 cousin), when used on Film cameras, have a problem with vignetting (shadowing) of the corners at 28mm. From about 35mm on up, this problem disappears.
If using it on the Sony Alpha 100 (or a Minolta 5D or 7D), this problem shouldn't show itself, thanks to the '1.5x crop factor' (the Digital uses a smaller portion of the lens's 'image circle' than a film camera would).
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