Minolta's most popular/best selling lenses ?

Apropos of nothing at all except that I was tidying up the office/study this

morning ( overdue ) and waiting for the latest downpour ( underdue ) to clear

and got to thinking ( OK rambling ) what were the best selling Minolta lenses.

This was triggered by the "deathbed confession" from Minolta that they had sold

16 million lenses. Actually if this referred to AF lenses I am surprised that

it was so few over some 21 years.

What do you think was the best selling prime and the best selling zoom over the

21 years ?

Not your favourite lens ( we can go through that another day ) but the best

selling. Based on I what I have seen used, for sale in camera shops and on good

old fleabay I would suggest :-

PRIME 50mm f1.7 ( maybe because it was the original "kit" lens ).

ZOOM 70-210mm f4 ( beercan if you must ).

It has got to be one of those other kit lenses - 35-80mm f3.5-5.6, if you take all of the versions together.

Telephoto - there are a lot more 70-210mm f4.5-5.6 lenses out there than the beercan.

chad

i agree with chad.

zoom lens: most likely one of those kit lenses 35-80mm, 28-80mm something like that

prime lens: 50mm, its the cheapest one out there and a lot of people prefer this angle of view as 'standard'...personally i prefer 35mm but i cant find one/they are probably too expensive.