Minolta 50mm F1.7 MD No8523474
It may strike some as being strange but I bought in 1998 a brand new 50mm 'standard lens' plus I had to wait 3 solid months for it to come in a container ship from Japan!
The reason I got one was I find this lens to be really useful for things like nature study and when coupled with either close up lenses or a macro converter gives me almost life-sized images.
I addition its f1.7 aperture makes it easy to use in dull conditions.
As the last version of the 'Standard 50', it lost the Rokkor branding and gained the Minimum Aperture setting lock introduced for the X700's program mode.
