see your points. Few questions to follow up:
Can that dead fungus be cleaned?
What about the bokeh and sharpness on the 100-200 f4.5 ?
I have a Minolta 28-100 f3.5~5.6 lens, so the range is covered (kit lens for my Minolta Dynax 3).
I love portraits too and I use my minolta 50mm f1.7 for that. I find the range limiting sometimes as a walkaround lens,and I'm soon getting a Minolta 28mm f2.8 as well. Am I prime crazy? :P
I own a a200 as well as the only body. Yes the beercan is slow to focus. I've learnt never to take the beercan on a proper vacation, especially with a sling bag, my shoulder was so dead I decided to buy a regular two-shoulder backpack midway and put everything in there.
I guess I have a love-hate thing with the beercan, but the question still lies of keeping it or not. I want one of the 2 and don't want to keep both. So should I buy or keep?