• Source: List of Minolta SR-mount lenses

Minolta sold cameras and lenses with the Minolta SR-mount between 1958 and 1996.




Nomenclature



Most Minolta lenses for SR-mount cameras are branded Rokkor; in the United States, to combat unofficial gray market imports, lenses officially imported were engraved as Rokkor-X, with the X colored orange. Before 1975, lenses also carried a two-letter suffix indicating the construction.
Because the number of groups is always equal to or less than the number of lens elements, certain combinations are not possible (for instance -QC, which would be a four-group, three-element lens). In other cases, the combination is not used, such as -QG, which would be a four-group, seven-element lens. Although the -OJ suffix was never used for a production lens, a prototype MC Rokkor-OJ 24 mm f/2.8 lens was shown at Photokina 1970.
In addition to Rokkor-branded lenses, Minolta also sold a lower-cost line of lenses, designated Celtic.: 66  Compared to the Rokkor lenses, Celtic lenses have less sophisticated coatings.: 8 
In the final series of lenses (after 1981), the "Rokkor" branding was dropped.




= Generations

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MC and MD tabs on Minolta XD-5













Minolta SR-mount lenses can be broken into three broad generations with some overlap:

Pre-MC (1958): Lenses with manual, preset, and automatic diaphragms, without the meter coupling (MC) tab on the aperture ring to signal the f-stop that was selected to the in-body light meter.
MC (1966): Lenses with automatic diaphragms, with the MC tab.
MD (1977): Lenses with automatic diaphragms and the MC tab, and an additional minimum diaphragm (MD) tab to signal the minimum aperture opening size (largest f-stop value) of the lens to the body for shutter-priority autoexposure.
In general, MD lenses tend to incorporate more plastic components and are lighter than MC and pre-MC lenses. Within each of these generations, there are minor differences which are generally cosmetic changes.




List of lenses



Notes




References






External links


"Minolta SR Lens Index". Minolta.eazypix.de. April 24, 2017.
"Minolta Lens Perfect Data". ミノルタカメラのすべて―懐かしいミノルタ往年のモデル500機種を [All about Minolta cameras: 500 nostalgic Minolta models] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: [エイ]出版社. pp. 97–112. ISBN 978-4-87099-923-7.




= Brochures

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"A guide to the Minolta SR system of creative photography" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. 1967 – via Camera-Museum.org.
"A guide to the Minolta SR system of creative photography (SR SYS 101E)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. January 1971 – via Minolta.suaudeau.eu.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. 1972 – via MassimoScottinelweb.com.
"A guide to the Minolta SR system of creative photography (SLR SYSX 404E-B2)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. April 1974 – via Minolta.suaudeau.eu.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS 408E-B1)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. August 1974 – via MassimoScottinelweb.com.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYSX 603-H1)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. March 1976 – via Vintage Camera Digest.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS 710E-L2)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. October 1977 – via MassimoScottinelweb.com.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYSX 803E-M1)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. March 1978 – via Pacific Rim Camera, Reference Library.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS 909E-P1-O100)". Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. September 1979.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS 002E-R1-O100)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. February 1980 – via Minolta.suaudeau.eu.
"A guide to the Minolta SLR system of creative photography (SLR SYS 0209-F1)" (PDF). Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. September 1982 – via Minolta.suaudeau.eu.

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