Konica Minolta AF Zoom 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 SLR Lens Maxxum SLR Cameras

by Minolta

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.4 x 4.1 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000063VY5
• Item model number: 75 - 300 mm / F 4,5 - 5,6
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 22, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Minolta AF 75-300mm lens is ideal for sports, portraiture, birding, and more. It features a continuous macro setting that offers accurate focus from infinity to 4.9 feet and a 4x zoom ratio. It includes a new distance-encoding device that enables improved calculation for flash exposure with Maxxum 5 and 7 cameras when used with Konica Minolta 3600HS D and 5600HS D flashes.

The Minolta Maxxum Autofocus Lens System is one of the world's most complete lens systems, covering every kind of lens from wide angle, telephoto, and wide-range zooms to large-aperture, reflex, and soft-focus types. Only Minolta Maxxum AF lenses are expressly made to link perfectly with your Minolta Maxxum AF SLR. Every Maxxum AF lens locks into your Minolta camera to form an integrated unit that allows focus and exposure data to flow from the lens' read-only memory (ROM) integrated circuit to the camera's central processing unit. Each Maxxum AF lens is a product of Minolta's advanced computer-assisted optical design. Minolta is one of the few camera makers to insist on making its own optical glass.

Product Description

Zoom Lens for Minolta SLR cameras with Auto-Focus compatibility

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great value with few drawbacks, November 27, 2006

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Marco Polo "DIYGUY" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Konica Minolta AF Zoom 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 SLR Lens Maxxum SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I bought this lens for my Minolta Maxxum 5 SLR three years ago. I have taken it on trips and shot hundreds of photos with it and not had any regrets. It is not too heavy, it fits into a hip pack just right and the focal range is fantastic. Compared with lenses that costs hundreds of dollars more it is an incredible bargain. If you are just a point and shooter like me, and want life taking pix to be easy, then this is a great lens. I recently bought a K-M Maxxum 5 D-SLR (no longer made but still around if you look) and the 'A-mount' takes this lens just fine. I am looking forward to seeing how it performs on the new camera. About the only drawback with this lens I can find is that you want to shoot more pix!!

Why 4 Stars and not 5? The light weight comes at a cost in materials. It is mostly plastic and just not very solid feeling, albeit I have never worried about it and so far it has given me no reason to have.

UPDATE May 2009:
Well the lens is still going strong, but now I use it on a new Sony Alpha 300 DSLR and this is a great combination. I truly appreciate it for its light weight and find that the only thing I truly wish it had was a lower f-stop capability. Sony makes this same lens under their logo. Most reviews refer to this as a "Beer-can lens" for obvious reasons. I think it must be a Budweiser beer - not too pricey, and reasonably satisfying ...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars shutterbug, December 12, 2006

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C. L. Reiter "shutterbug1569" (Wood-Ridge, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konica Minolta AF Zoom 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 SLR Lens Maxxum SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I love this lens. I need it for my sons football games. I get to go on the field, so I need fantastic shots of him and his teammates. Also, it's a Minolta lens that fits on my Minolta camera.