This lightweight Konica Minolta zoom lens--weighing only 8.5 ounces--is great for close-up shots and is ideal for landscape, portrait, and travel photography. 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.
This 28-100mm f3.5-5.6 D Series lens has a minimum focus
distance of 1.6 feet (18.9 inches) throughout its zoom range. The
lens is constructed of ten elements in eight groups, and it
employs one aspheric lens element to combat distortion and
aberrations and create beautiful images. It also utilizes a
circular aperture to give a natural appearance to specular
highlights in out of focus background areas.
Product Description
The affordable addition to the Maxxum photographer's gadget bag,
the new Minolta AF Zoom 28 - 100mm f/3.5 - 5.6 (D) is ideal for
landscape, portrait and travel photography.This new lightweight
and compact 3.5x zoom lens measures only 2.6 inches in diameter,
3.1 inches long, and weighs only 8.5 ounces. The new AF Zoom 28 -
100mm f/3.5 - 5.6 (D) is also a versatile tool for close-up
photography. With a minimum focus distance of 18.9 inches at all
focal lengths, it allows a maximum magnification of 1/4.With ten
elements in eight groups, the AF Zoom 28 - 100mm (D) employs one
aspheric lens element to combat distortion and aberrations and
create beautiful images. The new lens utilizes a circular aperture
to give a natural appearance to specular highlights in out of
focus background areas.The lens' built-in distance encoder allows
the use of the highly accurate ADI (Advanced Distance Integration)
flash metering designed to ensure accurate flash exposures when
used with the Maxxum 7, Maxxum 5, Maxxum 4, and Maxxum 3
Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras and the Minolta Maxxum Flash
3600HS (D) and 5600HS (D) flash units.
