This article was made specifically for this Carl Zeiss because Minolta 28mm lenses have already been enough studied and the site contains a lot of materials about them.
Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm 1:2.8 (AE) for the test was provided by Egor Nikolaev (Егор Николаев) – many thanks.
Minolta SR 28mm lenses comparison:
This is a battle of not expensive Minolta wide lenses – 28mm focal distance with quite slow apertures is on the ring. LensWorks has another one battle dedicated to the New-MD lens generation and it seems that this comparison between fighters from MC era can extend an understanding of how this focal distance was covered by Minolta.
Minolta MD 28-70mm 1:3.5-4.8 Lightweight-version Zoom Macro lens review
This lens is from the latest generation of manual lenses with the Minolta logo. However, it is not ‘truly’ Minolta because it was developed and produced by some third party company. There were two (at least?) different MD 28-70/3.5-4.8 lenses, the first one “the heavy” has been reviewed here, and now the article about the “lightweight” version is finished too.
Minolta MD 85mm 1:2.0 two copies comparison (New-MD, MD III)
The description of a LensRomantic test is here. These comparisons are for collectors or tech-enthusiasts. Photographers may go directly to a lens review.
Minolta New-MD 85mm F2.0 is the well known and one of the famous 85mm lenses in the humans history.
The hull of Copy #1 displays a lot of signs of using, but surprisingly the optical part stayed like new. Anyway, I have to say that this lens was reassembled at least two times – firstly by one of the previous owners, and later by me with the purpose to remove the result of the first disassembling.
I would like to share some observations about the focus point position that accumulated during lens testing. This is a quite long article, mostly not about tests only, but about differences between ‘similar’ lenses so it can be interesting for those who are involved in collecting or lens testing.