30 years old lens

Visited I Tenkawa village Yoshino in Nara Pref. yesterday for some good work on Minolta MD-Rokkor 28/2,0 in combination with Leica M9 Digital body. In order to adopt an old MD-Rokkor wide angle lens on M-bayonet mount, special adapter was manufactured utilizing a lens rear cap and a M body cap adjusting flange back distance to complete focusing at infinity distance.
As shown on the cylinder description, closing the iris ring to 8 obtains enough focusing depth from 2m to infinity to shoot ordinal objects, so range finder coupling is not always required for ordinal use. This is why I made up my mind to modify this dead stock lens produced while silver salt generation, over 30 years ago. Every lens maker is designing them utilizing computer analysis method to obtain the best solutions, so the physical property are the similar or the same, no difference is found in the way of expressions. This Minolta MD-Rokkor 28/2,0 lens is one of a relatively rare production with small amount of production in number, and the performances are excellent compared even with recent same wide angle lenses. Color, sharpness, correction of distortions and aberrations, vignetting and total solution capability is my favorite. So, this survival lens is one of my marvelous treasure even in Digital image period of time.