Minolta Dynax 7000i camera and 35-80mm AF lens-incompatibilty in Sony/Minolta Posted March 24, 2004 I had similar problems with a 7000i and the 80-200 power zoom lens. The xi series requires the extra contacts to power the motor in the lens that does the 'power zooming'. As far as I know, xi lenses should work by selecting the manual zoom setting, but it's annoying to have features on the lens that don't work correctly.
Minolta Dynax 7000i camera and 35-80mm AF lens-incompatibilty
in Sony/Minolta
Posted
I had similar problems with a 7000i and the 80-200 power zoom lens. The xi series
requires the extra contacts to power the motor in the lens that does the 'power zooming'.
As far as I know, xi lenses should work by selecting the manual zoom setting, but it's
annoying to have features on the lens that don't work correctly.