Minolta Body Converted To Nikon Mount?

[sevo]

And no one mentioned CANON so far! 😉

Hm. Adapting Minolta SR-lenses on a Canon F-1? There's still some 1.5mm of space, well, and the Canon breech lock's throat is very wide, should be doable I guess?

Should work. The FD mount was quite well suited for adaptation, indeed Canon seem to have been only maker apart from Alpa that themselves offered adapters for alien brand mounts (Nikon, Exakta, M42). Of course these adapters lose all aperture automation, and were originally intended to sell Canon bodies in the industrial and lab camera market rather than for pictorial photography.

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

I have a Haiou-64 SLR with 58mm 2.0 Biotar clone in Minolta MC mount. Never use it.

But —— I just realise there's also a digital version!

http://www.rokkorfiles.com/digital.htm

[see also http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Seagull#35mm_SLR last para 😉]

 

[Dwig]

For Macro shooting only.

As Mich stated above: "The SR mount is 43.50 mm and the Nikon F mount is 46.5." so full functionality of Rokkor lenses on a Nikon F2 body cannot be practically done, unfortunately.

Flange distances are only one factor. Mirror clearance is another.

You could remove the very deep body flange from an F2 and might be able to graft on a Minolta SR flange and achieve proper infinity focus. The F2 body flange is quite a bit deeper than the 3mm difference between the SR and F mounts' registers. You would then need to check the mirror clearance to make sure that the Nikon's mirror wouldn't hit the rear of a lens or its diaphram actuator. I doubt is would be a problem, but it should be checked.

The mirror clearance issue raised its ugly head for Leica when they began their joint development with Minolta. The Minolta zoom designs that Leica tweaked required a rear element closer to the film than the Leicaflex mirrors would allow. They worked around this in the Minolta based R-series bodies, which had adequate mirror clearance, by tweaking the bayonet claws so that the new R-series lenses would not mount on the older -flex bodies but the -flex vintage lenses would mount on the R-series bodies.

 

[mich rassena]

Pretty pointless when bodies and lenses from either brand can be had cheap.

I have a Haiou-64 SLR with 58mm 2.0 Biotar clone in Minolta MC mount. Never use it.
And the book by St. Denny I've been trying to sell but there's no takers. I guess Chinese cameras aren't held in high esteem in the Netherlands.

That book's on my to-buy list. Most of the desirable Chinese cameras are out of my price range, but they're interesting to read about.