Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7, Ominous

Analog Diary: Film photography favorites, images with a Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7, known for its sharpness, bright aperture, and lightweight build, a budget option for portraits, street photography, and low-light shooting.

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I am still in the 'getting the feel' relationship with the Minolta Maxxum 7 here, with the Maxxum AF 50mm f/1.7, as I did in an earlier post, but it has not gone far beyond the stage, except for the opportunity to grab these images of a bank of ominous clouds that seems to be threatening mine and the surrounding areas.

As my normal practice, the images were post-processed on Olympus Viewer 3 (OV3) with final print sharpening done on Google NIK Sharpener Pro 3.

Mentioned as a whale of a camera, the film-based SLR Maxxum 7 (or Alpha 7 in Japan and Dynax 7 in Europe) is perhaps one of the best of Minolta's A-mount autofocus film cameras one could get. The camera has a shutter speed range from 30 seconds to 1/8000 second, plus Bulb, flash sync speed at 1/200th of a second, eye-start automatic focus, multifunction LCD data screen, LCD navigation panel, full PASM shooting, three metering modes, exposure compensation, AE lock, continuous shooting at up to 4 frames per second, unlimited multiple exposures, self-timer, DX and user-selectable ISO control, and more.

Minolta Maxxum 7, Maxxum AF 50mm f/1.7

The camera was easy to get started with, feels great in your hands, and autofocus is fast and accurate, with the ample handgrip that makes one-handed operation smooth and easy. Metering seems flawless, with the equally lightweight Maxxum AF 50mm f/1.7 RS working well in tandem. So much more to talk about here, but beyond this scratch on the surface, I still have a long way to go to really realize the full potential of the camera. Let's hope that is not too long in coming.