Sony/Minolta pictures of the week | 1 Jamuary

<p>Good morning and Happy New Year!</p>

<p>Boxing Day is marked by Headington Quarry Morris doing their rounds with a mummer's play and rapper sword dance<br>

<a title="The rapper sword dance" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/588/31747483732_4e90b53f96_b.jpg" alt="The rapper sword dance" width="1024" height="1024" /></a><br>

^ A7 and FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS</p>

<p>On a crisp afternoon a couple of days later I got this view of Brightwell Barrow from Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire</p>

<p><a title="Brightwell Barrow" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/1/581/31853129551_602ee8c425_b.jpg" alt="Brightwell Barrow" width="1024" height="1024" /></a><br>

^ A7 and Minolta 500mm AF Reflex</p>

<p>The next day fog and mist descended on the cycle path to the city</p>

<p><a title="Marston cycle path" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/747/31634349520_2e3ac88c50_b.jpg" alt="Marston cycle path" width="1024" height="683" /></a><br>

^ NEX-7 and E 16mm F2.8</p>

 

<p>Great stuff Howard. Boxing Day looks like fun and those B&Ws are Sherlock Holmesian. I bought a 35-105 Maxxum lens despite the less than perfect description. It was really low priced ($15) so not much was at risk. I put the lens on the trusty A100 and took took several shots. Focus and shutter worked with well exposed images. Thought I was home free with a good inexpensive lens. Examination of the internal surfaces showed that this was not completely true. Image number 1 (taken with the Nex 3) tries to show the aberration on the back of the first (?) element. Sorry about the reflections.</p><div></div>

The next two are pictures taken with the lens and no (other than exposure) added.<div></div>

#3<div></div>

<p>Some of those older Minolta lenses are classics, Randy and dyxum.com rates the earlier version of that lens quite highly (<a href="http://www.dyxum.com/lenses/Minolta-AF-35-105mm-F3.5-4.5_lens44.html">link</a>) - a bargain for a tenner, in British money, pre-Brexit :-( </p>

<p>Ice fisherman, smoking.</p><div></div>

Grapevine Lake, near DFW. Sony a6000 with SEL1018<div></div>