{"id":21638,"date":"2019-03-24T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21638"},"modified":"2019-03-24T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:36:31","slug":"minolta-28-85-on-the-maxxum-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21638","title":{"rendered":"Minolta 28-85 on the Maxxum 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent addition to my autofocus Minolta collection is the 28-85 f3.5 to 4.5 zoom with macro.\u00a0 Without any real pre conceived notions I wanted to give it a good try.\u00a0 So I opted to shoot an entire roll of film with just the one lens.\u00a0 I loaded a roll of Fuji 200 in my Minolta Maxxum 5 and took it with me during an outing.\u00a0 The first thing to be considered is the focal length which is a very usable range from wide angle to telephoto enough for portraits.\u00a0 The aperture while not fast is serviceable.\u00a0 It suffers from colour fringing particularly away from the center but beyond that its actually a good performing lens.\u00a0 Physically its very compact not much larger than some prime lenses.\"Maxxum5_zoom_Fuji200_022-detail\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> It also provides close focusing but only at the wide 28mm setting which can be used for interesting wide-angle shots that include a close element as well as a lot of background but less so the isolation of an individual element against an obscured background which is a more familiar use of ‘macro’.<\/p>\n

Its probably a good thing that I’m using this lens with film as I don’t think its quite up to the more demanding task of a high resolution digital sensor. \u00a0 For a film kit though its a keeper.<\/p>\n\n\t\t