Photoclubalpha

Hi

I have just ordered Minolta 50mm/2.8 macro and it will arrive after a week!
I have seen some great pictures on different sites but I would also like to hear your opinions concerning this lens!
If you could provide me some pictures of flowers and bugs to have a good imaginations of opportunities of this lens I will be very glad!

Kindest regards
Armen

Here is one, at f/6.3 on the Dynax 7D:



And a couple from the A100:





David

Basically it's the same Sony 50/2.8 Macro. So it should be wonderful. In fact, it is wonderful.

Thank you for your pictures David, these are really nice shots!!
Have you taken these pics with the help of polarizer or not??
Doc I saw your pics of Sony 50mm/2.8 Macro and I liked them a lot.
If minolta is the same as sony one than I will be very happy I think

Both Minolta/Sony Macros are really good, object of desire for ore than one. If I'm doing flowers I'll take the 100mm more than the 50mm -I think the 100mm f2.8 is la creme de la creme and more versatile in the field than the 50mm. So, I don't have that many flowers to show you, but a portrait taken with the 7D some time ago:
@ f10

a 100% crop


a little too sharp at this f-stop for portraits, don't you think?

Regards

Thank you for your post Pako, I really liked it, very sharp, very nice !
Of course I thought and dream a lot about Minolta 100mm macro but I hardly could pay for 50mm, 100mm is about $200 expensive.