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Sony A-mount to E-mount LA-EA Lens Adapters

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 by matthew.huizing

Sony produces 5 major versions of their A-mount to E-mount lens adapters: LA-EA1, LA-EA2, LA-EA3, LA-EA4, and LA-EA5. 1 and 2 are designed only for APS-C capture, and their baffles

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The Most Valuable Minolta Lenses

April 28, 2021August 4, 2021 by matthew.huizing

Searching for the best Minolta lenses in search engines finds some hilarious lists. Minolta’s late consumer F4.5-5.6 zooms should not be on those. Forum threads are mostly filled with more

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Alpha Lens Ecosystem

January 17, 2021April 11, 2021 by matthew.huizing

Aperture Drive in AF (16: 14 FF, 2 APS-C) These are the most recent Sony lenses and the only ones to support the Aperture Drive in AF feature. These also

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Alpha System Timeline

May 17, 2020January 17, 2021 by matthew.huizing

1985 – Alpha Begins Minolta released their autofocus Alpha system in 1985 with one camera the Alpha 7000 and 12 interchangeable AF lenses. Many of the new AF lenses used

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