MandiBrooker wrote:.

... I haven't even managed to find the search engine yet!! Ihaven't found a link anywhere on the site specifically to a searchengine, and I can't find anything helpful by just searching at thetop of the forums. So if I'm missing something, I'd reallyappreciate someone pointing me in the right direction..

Why not go to the link at the top left for"Discussion Forums" > "Konica Minolta SLR Talk".

Funny you haven't found the search? The white text box above the forum threads that says:.

"Search for".

In that white box you type in your keywords..

Then you press the button saying "GO"..

That will help more than any one answer I can give you... Like NO not all lenses fit all systems. Never had, and never will. There are some adapters, but some only work one way, not both..

Why not ask where those with most relevant experience can (possibly) help..

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MandiBrooker wrote:.

Here's the question: I was last involved in SLRs waaaaaay back in thegood ol' film days, when I had Minolta SLRs. I know that Minoltasonly took Minolta lenses plus a couple of third-party lensmanufacturers, and I BELIEVE (am I wrong?) that pretty mucheverything else fitted everything else. What is the situationnowadays? Whose lenses fit what cameras? Is there anycross-manufacturer compatibility at all?.

You're right that minolta lenses only fit minoltas, and there are a couple third party makes like sigma and tamron etc. That is the case with every major camera distributor out there, nikons fit nikon lenses and thats it. Canon fits canon lenses and thats it. Theres really no cross manufacture compatibility..

And further to that: I assume that all my old Minolta lenses won'tfit anything in the dSLR market nowadays?.

You'd have to check on that one. I shoot Nikon, all my old lenses still work. I don't remember if minolta's mount changed at all since the digital age. If I had to guess I would say the old lenses should still work, though the autofocus and things may be out of date. A lot of it depends on how old your lenses are too so do some research..

Ryanhttp://www.ryandearth.com..

Ryan Dearth wrote:.

...nikons fit nikon lenses and thats it...really no cross manufacture compatibility..

Well with the proper adapter one can use some old lenses on some different brand cameras - from my limited research Canon (camera body lens mount) seems to have the most compatibility in this regard.

Here's my Canon 300D with a Nikon 50/1.8.

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Info Links.

"Using Classic Manual Focus Lenses on the Canon Digital Rebel"http://ca.geocities.com/spirope/EOSclassiclenses.htm.

"Using Manual Focus Lenses on Canon EOS bodies"http://bobatkins.com/photography/eosfaq/manual_focus_EOS.html.

Good Day,Roonal.

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Thanks people, for your replies. It's kinda what I expected, but I had a sort of dream that while I'd been away playing with P&S, perhaps some magic might have happened in the SLR world!! I will say that I think the converter rings are new since my day but since I'm going from Minolta to Pentax, (both smaller manufacturers) I don't expect anything useful really. Just have to bite the bullet and buy new lenses..

And thanks for the info about the Search... I had assumed from the reference to "The Search Engine" in the instructions to newbies that there was some sort of Knowledge Base / FAQ somewhere. Using that little search for a big, very general query like lenses isn't terribly helpful as you may imagine...

MandiBrooker wrote:.

I assume that all my old Minolta lenses won'tfit anything in the dSLR market nowadays?.

Autofocus lenses? The Sony A100 would be the only current model that might take them directly. It will take A-type bayonet mount lenses. Sony obtained the rights to that mount when Konica-Minolta closed down their camera business..

Sony has shown mockups of two other DSLR models, and indicated that one of those was expected to be released this year. We'll see...