Welcome, Minolta addict, from a former Minolta user (I shot a Dynax 3xi until I realised that the automatic functions, much as they took great pictures, were making me lazy. Then I bought a manual-focus Pentax camera, because of all the ones in the store at the time, it was the smallest, simplest, lightest and cheapest.)
That 8-element 50/1.4 was supposedly designed specifically to topple the Zeiss Planars from the top of the lens leaderboards, which it did. But once they had enough of a run out for it to qualify as a production lens, they switched to the 7 element design (the radioactive one with the thoriated rear elements) because they were making a loss on every copy!
However you choose to do it, enjoy your new lens.