Photos w/ Minolta Alpha Mount AF Lenses

[ferider]

The MAF 200/2.8 APO wide open and hand-held on the 850 (click for larger picture):

Roland.

 

[ellisson]

Minolta Maxxum 5D and Minolta 35-70 f4 lens in Buenos Aires, in 2005

 

[Uncle Fester]

Some very nice picture here. Not intending to hijack this thread, but I was wondering if Rokkor lenses can be used on the Alpha cameras. I'm using some of my Rokkors on a olympus EP-3 mirrorless camera, but the crop factor is driving me nuts WRT trying to go wide.

 

[CMur12]

Hi Zathros -

The MC/MD mount of manual-focus Rokkors is a completely different mount from the later auto-focus (Maxxum/Dynax/Alpha) Minolta lenses. I'm not even aware of any adapter to use the older manual-focus lenses on the later auto-focus cameras. If there ever was such an adapter, it wasn't popular enough to warrant much discussion.

- Murray

 

[ellisson]

There are many MD to MA adapters available to allow use of older Minolta manual focus lenses on the later Minolta and Sony A-mount cameras. Get one with glass or you cannot focus to infinity. They run in the $20 range on ebay. There are also adapters for use of Minolta manual focus lenses on Sony E mount cameras.

 

[Addy101]

I wouldn't bother with a glassed adapter as the glass is lousy. Get a Sony e-mount camera. The APS-C NEX cameras go for a song and a used A7 is in the same ballpark as an A900. If you're buying for your MC/MD lenses I would choose e-mount.

This is with the Minolta 28-70/2.8G

 

[Uncle Fester]

Thanks for the answers guys. I'll check out the e-mount bodies. The crop factor for the APS-C sensor is more workable for my needs than Micro 4/3.

 

[Maiku]

Sony a7 w/ Minolta 35/2 and 50/1.7