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 multinational 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.
Sigma Corporation is a Japanese company, manufacturing cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories. All Sigma products are produced in the company's own Aizu factory in Bandai, Fukushima, Japan. Although Sigma produces several camera models, the company is best known for producing high-quality lenses and other accessories that are compatible with the cameras produced by other companies.
Sony α is a brand of digital camera. This line has been active since 2006, building upon the Konica Minolta camera technologies, whose assets were acquired by Sony.
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 due to the longer flange focal distance, old manual lenses were 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 starting in 1985, then produced by Sony from 2006 until 2022, the AF Apo Tele 300mm f/2.8 is a professional telephoto prime photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta A-mount and Sony A-mount lens mounts. The name indicates it has an apochromatic design and is part of the G series, Minolta's designation for high-performance lenses. Later versions included "High Speed" gearing; starting in 2003, the lens was recomputed with a new optical design and equipped with a focusing distance encoder for the Advance Distance Integration (ADI) flash system.
Originally produced by Minolta, and later 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.
The Minolta AF Macro 100 mm f/2.8 lens is a discontinued macro lens produced by Minolta that was renowned for its sharpness all the while garnering raving reviews also. This lens achieves a true 1:1 magnification of the subject matter of interest to the photographer. While still having an aperture of f/2.8 coupled with its focal length of 100 mm, it is considered a double duty lens for macro photography and portraiture/portrait photography.
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.
The Minolta AF 28mm f/2.8 is a camera lens originally produced by Minolta, and produced by Sony after Sony took over Minolta's AF SLR and DSLR business. It is compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts. Since Sony introduced their mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras with their "E-Mount", Sony offers various A-to-E Mount adaptors to allow use of legacy A-Mount lenses on E-Mount cameras.
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.
The Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 is a discontinued lens with autofocus that was produced by Minolta for A-mount single lens reflex cameras from 1985 through 2006. It is still in use today by users of digital and film SLRs from Minolta and Sony. The relatively large maximum aperture allows the photographer to take shots indoors even when operating at ISO 100 - 200.
The E-mount is a lens mount designed by Sony for their NEX and ILCE series of camcorders and mirrorless cameras. The E-mount supplements Sony's α mount, allowing the company to develop more compact imaging devices while maintaining compatibility with 35mm sensors. E-mount achieves this by:
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.