Originally developed and produced by Minolta as AF Apo Tele Zoom 70-200mm f/2.8 G (D) SSM, then marketed by Sony as 70-200mm f/2.8 G SSM (SAL-70200G) and updated as 70-200mm f/2.8 G SSM II (SAL-70200G2), this lens is a professional full-frame lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta, Konica Minolta and Sony A-mount.
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Carl Zeiss AG, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott he laid the foundation for today's multi-national company. The current company emerged from a reunification of Carl Zeiss companies in East and West Germany with a consolidation phase in the 1990s. ZEISS is active in four business segments with approximately equal revenue in almost 50 countries, has 30 production sites and around 25 development sites worldwide.
Sony α is a digital camera system introduced on 5 June 2006. It uses and expands upon Konica Minolta camera technologies, including the Minolta AF SLR lens mount, whose assets were acquired by Sony after the end of Konica Minolta's photography operations in early 2006. Sony also has an 11.08% ownership stake in Japanese lens manufacturer Tamron, which is known to have partnered with Konica Minolta and Sony in the design and manufacture of many zoom lenses.
Originally produced as Konica Minolta AF Zoom DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 (D) by Konica Minolta, and later produced by Sony, the Sony α DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 (SAL-1870), is a photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts. The DT designation means this lens is designed to be used with a camera with an APS-C size sensor. When the 1.5× crop factor is considered, the lens has an effective equivalent 27–105mm focal length.
The Minolta A-mount camera system was a line of photographic equipment from Minolta introduced in 1985 with the world's first integrated autofocus system in the camera body with interchangeable lenses. The system used a lens mount called A-mount, with a flange focal distance 44.50 mm, one millimeter longer, 43.5 mm, than the previous SR mount from 1958. The new mount was wider, 49.7 mm vs. 44.97 mm, than the older SR-mount and had a longer flange focal distance making old manual lenses incompatible with the new system. Minolta bought the autofocus technology of Leica Correfot camera which was partly used on the a-mount autofocus technology. The mount is now used by Sony, who bought the SLR camera division from Konica Minolta, Konica and Minolta having merged a few years before.
Originally produced by Minolta, and currently produced by Sony, the AF Apo Tele 300mm f/2.8 G (D) SSM is a professional telephoto prime photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts.
Originally produced by Minolta, and currently produced by Sony, the 50mm f/1.4 is a normal wide-aperture prime photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
Originally produced by Minolta, and currently produced by Sony, the AF Macro 50mm f/2.8 is a macro prime photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts.
Originally produced by Minolta, and currently produced by Sony, the 20mm f/2.8 is compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
Originally produced by Minolta, and currently produced by Sony, the 28mm f/2.8 is compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
Minolta AF 35mm f/1.4 lens is a camera lens that was introduced by Minolta in 1987, and revised in 1998 as Minolta AF 35mm f/1.4 G New. In 2005, Konica Minolta announced the Konica Minolta AF 35mm f/1.4 G (D) with revised optics, mechanics and distance encoder. This version was never released, but saw life as Sony α 35mm f/1.4 G (SAL-35F14G) in 2006, released by Sony. The 35mm f/1.4 G is compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
Originally produced as Konica Minolta AF Zoom DT 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 (D) (2698-110) by Konica Minolta in 2005, and currently produced by Sony, the Sony α DT 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 is compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts. The DT designation means this lens is designed to be used with a camera with an APS-C size sensor. When the 1.5× crop factor is considered, the lens has an effective equivalent 16.5–27mm focal length.
Originally produced as Konica Minolta AF Zoom DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 (D) by Konica Minolta in 2005, and currently produced by Sony, the Sony α DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 (SAL-18200) is compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts. The DT designation means this lens is designed to be used with a camera with an APS-C size sensor. When the 1.5× crop factor is considered, the lens has an effective equivalent 27–300mm focal length. The lens is derived from the Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical [IF] (models A14M/A14S).
Originally produced by Minolta, and after the Minolta/Sony merger produced by Sony, the 24-105mm f/3.5-4.5 (D) was compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
The Sony α NEX-5 is a digital camera launched on 11 May 2010. It is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with the body size of a larger model fairly compact point-and-shoot camera with a larger sensor size (APS-C) comparable to that of some digital single-lens reflex cameras. Its major competitors in the market are the cameras based on the micro 4/3 standard created by Panasonic and Olympus, and a few low end Canon, Nikon, and even Sony α DSLRs. The NEX-5 shoots 14.2 megapixel stills and has a 7 frame/s continuous shotmode. It has the capability to shoot 1920×1080i at 60 frame/s in AVCHD or 1440×1080p at 30 frame/s in MPEG4. The NEX-5 was replaced by the 16 megapixel NEX-5N in August 2011.
The Vario-Sonnar T* 24–70 mm f/2.8 ZA SSM (SAL-2470Z) is a high-quality zoom lens compatible with cameras using the Sony α, and Minolta AF lens mounts. It was designed and is manufactured by Sony in Japan in collaboration with Carl Zeiss.
Rokkor was a brand name used for all Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō and later Minolta lenses between 1940 and 1980, including a few, which were marketed and sold by other companies like Leica. The name was derived from the name of Rokkō (六甲山), a 932 metre (3058') high mountain, which could be seen from the company's glass-making and optics factory at Mukogawa near Osaka, Japan. The company's founder Kazuo Tashima wanted the name to symbolize the high quality in optics.
The Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS is a premium, constant maximum aperture full-frame (FE) telephoto zoom lens for the Sony E-mount, announced by Sony on February 3, 2016.
The Sony FE 70-200mm F4.0 G OSS is a full-frame constant maximum aperture, telephoto zoom lens for the Sony E-mount, announced by Sony in 2013.