David Busch's Sony Alpha a68/ILCA-68 Guide to Digital Photography

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Working with Lenses

Although it’s sometimes alarming for those of us who have been taking pictures a very long time, the recent tendency for larger companies to absorb smaller vendors has paid some big dividends, most notably in the huge selection of lenses available for the Sony A-mount camera line that includes the a68.

In my youth, I managed a camera store for a while, and had access to a broad range of different models, and so used both Konica and Minolta cameras for many years—dating back to the Konica Autoreflex T (the first SLR with autoexposure/through-the-lens metering) and the legendary Minolta SRT-101. Only a few years into the digital SLR era, the two companies joined forces as Konica Minolta, and in turn saw their technology ...