Sony and Minolta lens abbreviations and acronyms meaning.
Sony lenses (before Minolta) have to used similar marking and abbreviation as Canon and Nikon lenses.
Mount type:
- Alpha: α (DSLR).
- E: E (Mirrorless).
Sony lens or Minolta lens marking abbreviation and what they stand for:
- SSM: Super-Sonic Motor.
- SAM: Smooth Autofocus Motor.
- D : Give the focus distance to the camera body.
- G: Gold Series (high end quality).
- DT: Digital Technology (optimised for digital sensor).
- APO: APOchromatic correction using AD elements (see AD below).
- HS-APO: High-Speed APO.
- AD: Anomalous Dispersion.
- OSS: Optical Steady Shot (E-mount only).
- T*: High-performance Coating.
- M: macro 1:1 magnification.
- Z: lenses using Carl Zeiss technology.
Olympus Four third (4/3) lens abbreviations and meaning.
- ED: Extra-low Dispersion glass elements.
- SWD: Supersonic Wave Drive Motor.
- II : lens version (II = v2, III = v3, etc.).
You might also be interested with the last entry in the blog:
Photophone: How to do great pictures with a smartphone or a tablet.
Nowadays our smartphones have more computer power than a 10 years old desktop computer. Technology is evolving fast and with it, the language acquiring new words like smartphone or selfie.
We are doing everything with our phone, from a GPS assistant to photograph or record a movie in full 1080p HD, even post processing those images, and i don't even speak about playing 3D games, read some news on internet and so on...
At the end, when we compare how we use our phone the most, in percentage, I can say safely that we barely use it to call someone, and this is why i call mine a photophone.
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