Minolta AF 70-210mm f/4
lens · Sony A · released 1985-01-01
MSRP at launch
—
Jan 1985
Inventory
24
across 2 sources
Near the 90-day low
How we compute thisClose to the 90-day low. Within $1 of the 90-day low of $34. Prices are down 2.9% over the last 30 days.
- Lowest now
- $34
- 90-day low
- $34
- All-time low
- $34 (Sep 7, 2026)
- 30-day trend
- -2.9%
Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Minolta AF 70-210mm f/4 used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/minolta/af-70-210mm-f4
Latest pricing by source
Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.| Source | Condition | Price | Listings | Observed | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebay | used → good | $34
shipping not quoted
| 15 | Observed 16h ago | view listing |
| upp | fair → fair | $42 | 5 | Observed 16h ago | view listing |
| upp | good → good | $60 | 4 | Observed 16h ago | view listing |
Price history
One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.
See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.
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Specs
- Brand
- Minolta
- Family
- Minolta AF
- Category
- lens
- Body type
- —
- Mount
- Sony A
- Sensor
- —
- Megapixels
- —
- Lens type
- zoom
- Focal length
- 70–210mm
- Aperture
- f/4.0
- Weight
- 695 g
- Filter thread
- 55mm
- Length
- —
- Diameter
- —
- Construction
- —
- Released
- 1985-01-01
- Status
- discontinued
Notes
The 'beercan'. A constant-f/4 telephoto zoom from 1985 that outresolves most of what replaced it, for about the price of a memory card. The single best-value lens on this mount.
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Browse shots on FlickrHow we compute each section
References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.
1. Price history
- #1.1 · Grade buckets
-
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set:
mint,excellent,good,fair,poor, andunknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping. - #1.2 · Missing days
- A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
- #1.3 · Color encoding
- Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
- #1.4 · Shipping
- Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
- #1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
- A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.