Konica Minolta Normal 50mm f/1.7 MD Lens

Great color retention. High quality lens. Love the shutter speed this lens is capable of. Fits three of my camera bodies! I bought it for my youngest son's wedding this April. We will travel over 2270 miles with our RV over three major mountain ranges. I plan to take lot's of pictures in route with this lens along with the wedding ceremony. Hard to find manual lens anymore but with eBay, anything can be found and purchased!

NEW MD 50mm F1.7 lens is quite light and likes the performance.

A filter size the 49mm can use various filters.

This picture which chops to the lens is sharp.

High contrast.

Splendid color.

Very good lens!

Excellent lens and priced great....at local camera shops I've seen these priced as high as $85 for a used lens....can often find them on Ebay for $15 or less! I just wish the still made this lens as spare parts for SLR cameras are starting to be real hard to find...thank goodness for Ebay!

This was Minolta's flagship lens.

It was the lens they included in the box with their basic camera offerings. New camera owners used this lens first. For most camera owners, it was the only lens ever mounted on the camera. It had to be precise, reliable, and simple to operate.

A flexible and general-purpose design inherently requires compromise. For specific shots, there will always be another lens that is better in some way. Telephoto opportunities are obvious examples.

Photographers new to the camera and lens sometimes get images that are a little blurry. When that happens, the lens is almost never the problem, and changing lenses is unlikely to correct it, with one exception.

If we exclude special situations, most novice and amateur photographers would not be able to reliably distinguish photographs they have taken with this lens from photographs taken with an appropriate specialty lens.

There are more fertile areas to investigate. Lenses sometimes grow mold, so check for mold. Camera movement and mirror-shake, caused by the mirror moving up, are almost always the culprits. Big, long, heavy telephoto lenses are the one exception. They will significantly reduce mirror-shake, but then, you should really be using a tripod and mirror-lock-up anyway, for those kind of shots.

This is a fast, lightweight, precise lens. It is perfectly suited to the category of general-purpose. Very few lenses made these days come anywhere close to the quality of these jewels, whether general purpose or special purpose.

For amateurs and novices using the relevant cameras like Minolta SR's and SRT's, in terms of price for performance, it doesn't get better than this. You could easily spend ten times as much, without noticing any improvement.

These lenses are both plentiful and inexpensive on Ebay. I own several of them. I keep my best 50mm Minolta lens tucked away for special occasion photography, the other 50 mm lens are used more regularly for "whatever" photoagraphy. When the weather is raining or snowing, I use my extra 50mm lens along with my extra x700. Again, they are fairly inexpensive, often time the shipping costs more than the lens. When photo's are taken at F stops between 5.6 and 11, they are particularly sharp.