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Hello

Very new to photography and have got a Sony A200 with the 18-70mm standard lens kit.

Now I want a prime lens for some portrait photography and I have no idea what to get.

I have seen the following:

Sony 50mm f1.8 SAM Portrait Lens

This looks exactly what i want and at £140 seems a good price.

My question is, would this be the best lens to get for the sub £200 price i am willing to pay?

I know I can get cheaper lenses from Ebay made by Minolta (i think) but I have to mess about with mounts etc and this one is brand new

Cheers

Laurie
 
Thats a good lens for portraits on your Sony.The minolta's on ebay are now fetching almost the same money
 
My 50mm Sony lens arrived this morning .... Only been out with it for over a hour and already like what it can do.
 
noneforit said:
Hello

Very new to photography and have got a Sony A200 with the 18-70mm standard lens kit.

Now I want a prime lens for some portrait photography and I have no idea what to get.

I have seen the following:

Sony 50mm f1.8 SAM Portrait Lens

This looks exactly what i want and at £140 seems a good price.

My question is, would this be the best lens to get for the sub £200 price i am willing to pay?

I know I can get cheaper lenses from Ebay made by Minolta (i think) but I have to mess about with mounts etc and this one is brand new

Cheers

Laurie
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Ive got a minolta 50mm lens for sale here

Its a spot on lens, and gets better reviews than the sony SAM you were looking at.
 
Thanks for all the replies.

I will likely go for the Sony as i am quite OCD about matching things so for the sake of an extra £20 i would rather get the Sony over the Minolta.
 
noneforit said:
Thanks for all the replies.

I will likely go for the Sony as i am quite OCD about matching things so for the sake of an extra £20 i would rather get the Sony over the Minolta.
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Minolta were the original manufacturer of the A-Mount - Sony bought the rights to the system a few years back and several of the lenses are simply rebadged version of the Minolta lenses (with minor tweeks perhaps).

The cameras are just Sony's progression of the technology.

Do not get hung up about Minolta lenses not matching - they are 100% genuine A-Mount lenses, simply the previous generation.
 
orangio said:
Ive got a minolta 50mm lens for sale here

Its a spot on lens, and gets better reviews than the sony SAM you were looking at.
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I'm sure the Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 is a good lens, but most are getting old and "well-used". It does seem really odd that people are trying to sell them for the same price as a new with warranty Sony equivalent!
 
bobiscuit said:
I'm sure the Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 is a good lens, but most are getting old and "well-used". It does seem really odd that people are trying to sell them for the same price as a new with warranty Sony equivalent!
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The assumption here is that a Minolta 50 f1.7 and a Sony 50 f1.8 SAM are equivelent lenses, which may (or may not) be the case.

Personally, I feel the 50 f1.7 is overpriced currently (I got mine for £50 from a camera shop a year ago, happy to pay a slight premium at the time to see and try the lens in quetion before I bought it), but in the end it's all down to what people will pay.
 
the Minolta will have better build & is FF whereas the Sony is APS-C (albeit it will nearly fill the frame on FF). I suspect that the Sony will be sharper but not a lot in it.
The Sony has a warranty & SAM (if you consider that a benefit or a downside is upto individual choice).
 
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