Will this lens work on my ME Super

I'm not sure what information you need - just use it the same way you use your 50mm. If using longer focal lengths, always ensure the shutter speed is fast enough to avoid camera shake.

For example, a 50mm lens needs 1/50s (nearest is 1/60s)
A 200mm setting needs 1/200s (use 1/250s)

There are essentially two types of zoom lens - one touch and two touch designs. On the former you push or pull the grip in or out from the camera body to zoom, and turn the grip to focus (as on your 50mm). The latter has a second grip which you turn to zoom. The aperture ring functions in the same way as on the 50mm.

You will probably find that performance improves dramatically at around f8 or so (this seems to be the sweet spot for most lenses). In low light you'll probably find this needs quite a slow shutter speed, so consider buying a tripod if you don't already have one. It doesn't need to be anything impressive, I have an ancient Slik 500G which I paid £8 for and which works perfectly.

Hello

I tested a Hanimex 80-200 for a friend on my K10d - not too bad on the K10 (can't comment on film) f8 was the best however IQ fell off the cliff at f22 - F22 is best avoided unless the copy I tested was not a great one.


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Stuey.

Thankyou all for your help and sound advice.I shall feel more confident in using this zoom lense now. By the way John when my wife came home tonight i asked her why did she have a zoom that does not fit her camera, She replied that she has never used it because she has misplaced the adapter. What are they?!!!

Anyone's guess. It might be possible to make an adapter which would allow a K mount lens to fit a Minolta, but I suspect you'd have to use extra glass elements to keep infinity focus (if that would even work!) which would degrade image quality significantly.

You can use M42 lenses on your ME Super with an adapter, but that's only possible because the M42 mount is smaller than a K mount so you can nest one inside the other with a flush-fitting adapter. In general, attempting to make an adapter to fit a lens to a camera that it wasn't intended to fit will put the lens too far away from the film, meaning that you won't be able to focus on distant objects (infinity focus).

There are exceptions - some 3rd party manufacturers offer lenses where the mount can be removed and swapped for a different one, enabling them to make one lens and a selection of mounts to fit different camera brands.

If your wife wants a zoom then it shouldn't cost too much to obtain a good used Minolta-fit one. I'm not sure whether Minolta's manual lenses fit the Sony DSLRs - if not, then the lenses will be cheap as chips even for a very good one.

The X-300 was pre-Dynax, so used the older MD mount. They are incompatible with the Dynax autofocus mount which carried over to Sony.

Happy hunting!

Myles