{"id":17895,"date":"2016-11-26T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2016-11-25T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:13:51","slug":"minolta-riva-zoom-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17895","title":{"rendered":"Minolta Riva Zoom 140"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MinoltaRivaZoom140-5560\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Despite their best efforts no camera manufacturer ever achieved a long zoom point and shoot film camera that provided exceptional lens performance across the entire frame and good light gathering ability.\u00a0 It really would be asking a lot: compact, light, fast, control of distortion, no vingetting, sharp.\u00a0Those are a lot of factors to consider. You can not have your cake and eat it too, there is a reason for SLR’s and large fast corrected lenses.\u00a0 Even so this was\u00a0a pretty good attempt by Minolta to provide a versatile camera with a quality lens. The 38-140mm f3.5-9.4 has 8 elements in 7 groups and shows little vignetting and good consistent image quality at all zoom settings across the entire frame. When set to macro it will focus down to 1.6ft.<\/p>\n

It’s now 20 years since this camera first came out and photography has obviously moved on so the question needs to be asked if there is any point to a point and shoot like this.\u00a0 The answer is yes the Minolta Riva Zoom 140EX is one of the best long zoom point and shoots.\u00a0 It’s a large camera for it’s type but the lens is just that little bit faster than it’s competitors.<\/p>\n\n\t\t