Minolta online Dynax 8000i DB-7 (Damaged Camera Body) With Minolta AF Zoom 70-210mm 1:4(32) Lens Und Hood
Minolta Dynax 8000i
For their top-range professional cameras, Minolta used to skip a camera generation. This probably had everything to do with the development costs of such a professional camera(system). So with the x000 series came the professional 9000. This meant the x000i series wouldn't have a professional model. Minolta's solution to this was an even more advanced, advanced amateur camera. This turned out to be the 8000i. The camera Minolta should have brought out in the first place. They could have skipped the 7000i entirely and bring out the 8000i as the '7-range' model. But no, probably for marketing reasons, they first presented the 7000i and later on in 1990 the more advanced 8000i. A trick they would repeat with the 'si' series.
Essentially the 8000i is the same as a 7000i. The most remarkable difference is the shortest shutterspeed which 1/8000th of a second with the 8000i and 'only' 1/4000th with the 7000i. Also online shortest flashsynchro time was 1/200th in stead of 1/125th.This probably meant the 8000i had a different shutterbox on board.
Besides this the 8000i also offered center weighted average metering (besides matrix and spot), multiple exposure, a better viewfinder and some other less relevant improvements. All this hardly justified the 1/3rd higher pricetag Minolta put on the 8000i.
A very common problem with the 8000i is the bleeding of the viewfinder readout. This results in unreadable exposuredata. An enormous drawback which affects todays usability in a serious way. So if you're looking for an 8000i check the viewfinder readout (viewfinder Clean). Leave unsold if this doesn't look good.
The Minolta Dynax 8000i, also sold as Maxxum 8000i for the North-American market and as the α-8700i for the Asia/Pacific market, was launched as an improved version of Minolta Dynax 7000i. Both 8000i and 7000i share a lot of common features. The main improvements over the 7000i are:
faster maximum shutter speed, 1/8000 (vs. 1/4000 for the 7000i)
faster flash synch speed, 1/200 (vs. 1/125 for the 7000i)
high-eyepoint viewfinder
improved LCD screen
The camera has not been tested, I will give it as a gift along with the lens. The price is for the lens only.
Lens:
The Minolta AF Zoom 70–210mm f/4 lens (colloquially known as the "beercan") is an autofocusing telephoto photographic lens compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF lens mount.
Sony Alpha 55 with Minolta 70–210mm f/4
It was introduced in 1985 at the launch of the Minolta Maxxum/Dynax/Alpha 7000 camera (the first widely successful autofocus SLR) and remained in production for many years. Two years earlier, the lens had been introduced as a one-touch zoom in the manual-focus Minolta SR mount (as a "plain" MD lens). However, production slowed and then eventually stopped for both the AF and MD versions; its successors, the 70-210mm f/3.5-4.5 and 70-210mm f/4.5-5.6 had none of the qualities of the original and build and image quality decreased.[citation needed]
It remains popular, however, for use on digital single lens reflex cameras using the AF system, such as the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D or the Sony α. Although relatively bulky and weighty, the lens is valued for its solid build, sharpness, constant maximum aperture and smooth bokeh effect, though it suffers from more pronounced aberrations than equivalent modern designs. It provides a 1:4 magnification (at minimum focus, an object records at 1/4 its size on film or sensor).
Minolta AF Zoom 70-210mm 1:4(32) Lens Und Hood
Technical data
Type:Zoom
Focal length:70-210mm
Crop factor:34.3–11.7°
Aperture: (max/min)f/4–f/32
Close focus distance:1.1 m
Max. magnification:1/4
Diaphragm blades:7 blades, straight
Construction12 elements in 9 groups
Features:
Max. length168 mm
Weight695 g
Filter diameter55 mm
Accessories
Lens hoodMetal or plastic clip-on
Angle of view
Horizontal34.3–11.7°