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Lens hood for Minolta MD 1.2/50
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:51 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:51 pm
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Minolta Lens hood/shade #6589-487

for Minolta MD 1.2/50 (1981 MD III)


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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:57 pm
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OK,

Responding to an old topic here but after years of fruitless research the order no. on the box shown above confirms at least (and at last!) that Minolta did in fact produce a dedicated hood for the MD III 50mm f/1.2, clip-in style.

Next quest: proof that Minolta did in fact produce an MD III - styled MD 85mm f/2.8 Varisoft. They show one in one of their last lens brochures from the MD III era, but that may have been a computer-drawn mockup, I've never seen one for real, only MD I / MD II styled ones.


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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:55 am
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After too many years lurking, I finally joined here to try repay a little knowledge I have gained from this site over the years.

Regarding the 50/1.2 lens shade...Minolta did not supply shades with the lens with standard lenses (at least in the later years) like they did for the others (without built-in hoods, of course). I suppose most people (like me) used one of those collapsible rubber hoods. Loved them then, but now that I collect Minolta gear, I really dislike them. This hood for the 50/1.2 is really hard to come by.

The 85/2.8 Varisoft was sort of available in MD-III trim. The lens body looks MD-II, just the name ring changed to non-Rokkor. See the review at lens.ws

Anyway, thanks for having me, and Sir RokkorDoctor, I especially appreciate your knowledge of the internals of these things.

Brad


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Welcome to mflenses Brad!

I believe from other comments I have read that that MD-III styled Varisoft was indeed a mock-up. In the end they never did anything more adventurous than drop the Rokkor designation, as you said. The switch to AF and slow decline of the MF lenses line, and low sales numbers of the Varisoft simply didn't justify the cost of re-tooling, I guess.

Over the next few years I hope to be sharing much more re. the internals of Rokkors. Welcome Turtle


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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:25 pm
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What about my shade ??

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Mir wrote:
What about my shade ??

🙄


I've been looking for one myself, I haven't seen on yet...


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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:04 pm
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The same hood has TWO product numbers? The hood for 50/1.2 can be found on 50/1.4, 50/1.7, and 50/2 lenses?

6589-487
6521-887


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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:26 pm
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From what i understand, both hoods exist and are different, one hood printed 50/1.4 1.7 2.0 and one hood printed 50/1.2
with each their product numbers #6589-487 and #6521-887

But both hood were sold in the same box ...


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visualopsins wrote:
The same hood has TWO product numbers? The hood for 50/1.2 can be found on 50/1.4, 50/1.7, and 50/2 lenses?

6589-487
6521-887


Mir wrote:
From what i understand, both hoods exist and are different, one hood printed 50/1.4 1.7 2.0 and one hood printed 50/1.2
with each their product numbers #6589-487 and #6521-887

But both hood were sold in the same box ...


Indeed the hoods are different. I've never seen the actual hood for the MDIII 50 f/1.2, but that lens has a larger 55mm filter thread than the 1.4, 1.7 and 2 which all have a 49mm filter thread.

The older-style screw-in hood for the earlier MD 50/1.2 as well as the size of the box shown give some idea of what the dimension for the hood would be. On that basis I would bet that the MDIII 50/1.2 hood is actually the same as the hood for the MDIII 35-135/3.5-4.5 zoom, just with a different print on it. (the next one up in depth is the hood for the MDIII 50-135/3.5 zoom, but that wouldn't fit inside the box shown.)
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