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A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

I will post in the next days a few pics in this thread, upon editing. Hope you will enjoy them.

This is also a tribute to a fantastic lens.

Mountain panorama by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

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Oct 20, 2023 at 06:38 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Very nice! I use one with my Minolta XK.

But, does a zoom lens count as one lens?

Oct 20, 2023 at 10:28 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Desmolicious wrote:
Very nice! I use one with my Minolta XK.

But, does a zoom lens count as one lens?

That is the million dollar question...

Oct 21, 2023 at 05:14 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Up to the summit.

Trois au sommet | Three at the top by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

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Oct 21, 2023 at 10:24 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Desmolicious wrote:
Very nice! I use one with my Minolta XK.

But, does a zoom lens count as one lens?

Hmmm ...

One lens housing, with different magnification levels of projection by moving the relationship of internal lens elements / groups to provide a well focused image on the focal plane from a given perspective.

35/1.4 FLE
Q / Q2 / Q3

Oct 21, 2023 at 12:02 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

RustyBug wrote:
Hmmm ...

One lens housing, with different magnification levels of projection by moving the relationship of internal lens elements / groups to provide a well focused image on the focal plane from a given perspective.

35/1.4 FLE
Q / Q2 / Q3

True...

Oct 21, 2023 at 06:03 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Low light black and white on the fly: the Druze baker

Le boulanger druze | The druze baker by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

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Oct 28, 2023 at 05:52 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

The three greengrocer sellers were kind enough to accept a pic after my purchases.

Les trois druzes vendeurs de primeurs | The three Druze greengrocer sellers by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

Nov 01, 2023 at 05:25 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Fishermen off the coast of Beirut.

Pêcheurs au large de Beyrouth | Fishermen off the coast of Beirut by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

Nov 04, 2023 at 01:37 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

@lumenspixel what camera are you using?

Nov 04, 2023 at 11:57 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

A Sony A7II.

Nov 05, 2023 at 03:56 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Mundi Dominator. Cedar pass, Lebanon.

Mundi dominator by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

Nov 08, 2023 at 03:10 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Under the bedouin's tent.

Invited to share tea in a Bedouin's tent at an altitude of 2000 meters in the Lebanese mountains.
Nomadic pastoralism preserves an ancient way of life.
Apart from a few anachronisms, this picture would have been the same 3000 years ago.

Bédouin sous la tente | Bedouin under the tent by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

Nov 25, 2023 at 12:52 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

The Holy family, with some approximations.

La sainte famille | The Holy family by lumens pixel, sur Flickr

Nov 27, 2023 at 02:05 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

Is this lens the same as the Leica R 35-70/3.5?

Nov 28, 2023 at 12:34 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

j.liam wrote:
Is this lens the same as the Leica R 35-70/3.5?

Not exactly. There has been three computations of this lens and Leica used the fist one. This is the third and last with the macro function.

Nov 28, 2023 at 02:31 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

lumenspixel wrote:
Not exactly. There has been three computations of this lens and Leica used the fist one. This is the third and last with the macro function.

Did the the re-formulation effect the performance at non-macro distances? Your images are beautiful in their composition and the technical performance of the optic. The Leica version isn’t held in particularly high esteem.

Nov 28, 2023 at 08:04 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · A summer with one lens: Minolta MD 35-70/3,5

j.liam wrote:
Did the the re-formulation effect the performance at non-macro distances? Your images are beautiful in their composition and the technical performance of the optic. The Leica version isn’t held in particularly high esteem.

Thank you for the nice words.

I have not compared the three versions but you could find on the web some information about them. The consensus is that the second and third versions would be the best ones, specially in the corners of a full frame camera.

You could for example peruse this thread: http://forum.mflenses.com/minolta-md-3-5-35-70mm-comparing-the-three-versions-t82636.html

Some of the Leica R/Minolta lenses are belittled because Leica purists could not accept the fact that their preferred manufacturer has unallied with a so perceived lowly Japanese manufacturer. But if you just look at the output, Minolta lenses were certainly not worse than those of the best manufacturers of the time and some of them certainly deserved the red label, such as for example the 16 mm fisheye still sold as Sony decades after its introduction in 1968.

Nov 28, 2023 at 11:10 AM


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