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Minolta MD 50mm F1.7 Prime Lens, Manual Focus

Lens tested working 100% with excellent optics and mechanics

This 50/1.7 is from the last generation of Minolta manual focus lenses, plain MD, or sometimes referred to as MD-III. Minolta made improvements in this generation, in the particular the coating was greatly upgraded.

The lens is in Minolta manual focus MD mount, meant for X-700, X-570, X-370, XD, XD, XE and SRT cameras but can be adapted to various mirrorless 4/3, micro 4/3, NEX, FX cameras (Sony Olympus Panasonic Fujifilm etc) - no adapter is included here. You will have to buy your own.

These lenses are about 40 years old and generally need service to restore their performance. The main culprit is the grease in the lens. After decades of use (or disuse) it usually has separated and the lighter oil part has evaporated and condensed onto the internal glass surfaces to form a film of numerous tiny oil droplets (oil haze) - very detrimental to image quality as it softens the image quite a lot. The oil haze is much worse than a little swirls of cleaning mark on the coating or a few sporadic dust particles inside the lens.

Some of the lenses, if they have experienced hot/cold conditions for example in a storage unit, the lighter oil may have got onto the blades to cause a sluggish or completely stuck aperture. Even if not yet on blades, often the oil has crept close to the aperture cartridge and before long it will get onto the blades. The grease on the focus helicoids may have deteriorated (separated, lighter oil is gone, heavier part has gummed up) to cause a stiff focus ring or very loose focus action with some play. If the lens has been on beach or in dusty environment, the focus action may be gritty.

The lens for sale here has just been serviced. We cleaned it inside out. Internal glass surfaces have been cleaned. The focus helicoids has been stripped of old grease and re-greased. Oil in vicinity of the aperture cartridge as well as gummed up grease at various places has been cleaned off. The lens will serve you many more years without you worrying about those issues mentioned above.

The lens glass is clear and bright glass with no scratch or haze or fungus. If you shine strong light through the lens you may see a few tiny dusts - it is normal and has no effects on lens performance.

The lens mechanics is in excellent shape. The aperture blades have no oil and are snappy. Focus ring is smooth with nice, proper resistance. Aperture ring clicks positively to every stop. Filter threads are good. Filters screws on/off without effort.

Cosmetically the lens is in very good to excellent condition. The barrel looks clean and does not have much noticeable wear other than a small ding/nick on the front edge of the focus ring (see the green arrow). All lettering crispy and bright. See photos for cosmetics.

Includes a pair of generic caps as shown.

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