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VW 1302 Super Beetle returned home for the repair work at the garage of my working place. Consequently, I made desperate effort to clean there thoroughly from early in this morning till noon today, just I got tired at all, exhausted!

According to the White Paper by Health and Welfare Ministry, it is stated that exercise that slightly exceeds physical strength is required on a regular bases, it is the way to life extension.

Some of passers by who looks over 70 years old stops in front of my garage because VW air-cooled Beetle is parking at my place unusually. Probably he might think over back to his good young days, because he must have come across it in the past half a century ago.
His nostalgic face is smiling all the time.

Some inconveniences were found, a mechanical relay part for turn signal does not play evenry, blinking speed fluctuates, as the replacement part has arrived already, I can countermeasure at any time when I am free. Another problem is disorder of one of the light bulb in the meterclaster, troublesome a bit?

Tracing my old tiny memory, I bid Minolta MD Zoom 100~200mm/5.6 and got it at 1 yen with no competitor. My old memory on it is very straightforward depiction with no intentionally emphasized strange colors.

First production of this zoom lens was done in 1977 and it had been in production till the end of manual focusing SLR period, 1988 without any optical design adjustment. In spite of extremely long barrel designing, no optical redesigning was performed!

Another manufacturers produced more shorter, smaller and lighter ones with similar specifications inviting some advanced technology. Every photographer would realize the reason if used once why Minolta insisted on the original optical design for this 100~200/5.6 lens as a matter of fact. 8 elements in 5 groups are so simple as a zoom lens at all.

No complicated explanations are not necessary to know the fact, Superb pics that make the observer feel like keep watching for ever would be the answers.
Hidden masterpiece is known to those who know its incredibly excellent performance.

As usual, long hood was extended much more till maximum so acceptable at 100 mm with fully opened aperture in order to separate unnecessary light source leading to clear and transparent images. Pic shows on the way of process, inner surface of extension would be covered with flocked non-reflective cloth in black color.

The argument does not exist in the actually numerically optical datum but in the taste with Retina, we don't need logic to like or dislike.