With adapter you can use them on Pentax DSLRs, Canon, Nikon..

Hoever you should understand that 6 or 8Megapixels resolution is very unforgiving..

Thing that looks sharp in viewfinder could be very soft at actual pixels on computer monitor when you will preview images..

Other problem is that with adaptor your faster 2.8 lenses will loose some light and will be 3.5 or even slower..

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Stan_P wrote:.

With adapter you can use them on Pentax DSLRs, Canon, Nikon..

Say what? It would be pretty hard to do for the mounts you mentioned, as the manual focus Minolta mount is shorter than any of the above. You'd have to add glass to the adapter, which isn't usually a good thing..

AFAIK the only adapter available for Minolta manual focus lenses is for 4/3rds, and it has no glass..

Http://www.cameraquest.com/adapt_olyE1.htm.

Hoever you should understand that 6 or 8Megapixels resolution is veryunforgiving..

6 to 8mp ain't much. Some film shot through these lenses had much higher resolution. Don't forget to sharpen DSLR images, you need to undo the AA filter..

Other problem is that with adaptor your faster 2.8 lenses will loosesome light and will be 3.5 or even slower..

Only if the adapter has glass..

Other than needing to manually focus on a viewfinder designed for AF, and dealing with uncoupled metering, the main issue is that (on 4/3rds) your lenses act as if they have double the focal length that they had when mounted on your 35mm. Sometimes that's good, other times it isn't..

Seen in a fortune cookie:Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed..

Nickleback wrote:.

AFAIK the only adapter available for Minolta manual focus lenses isfor 4/3rds, and it has no glass..

Http://www.cameraquest.com/adapt_olyE1.htm.

Not quite true.... You can still get (and I've got) a MD->Maxxum adapter which will allow your lenses to be used on a Minolta/Sony DSLR. Since I don't have a DSLR of any make you could email me.........

Just to clarify....

Adapter is located between lens and camera body. Minolta adaptor (I'm minolta 7D owner) is about 12mm thik. Light falloff because of these 12mm is enough TO NOT keep your fast MD MC lenses..

Adaptor is expensive byitself..

If you like Minolta ergonomics - Sony A100 is camera that accepts Minolta A mount lenses, in addition to new Sony glass. You still can be lucky and buy inexpensive Minolta AF stuff. Last saturday I bought Maxxum 7000 with 50mm f/1.7 and Minolta 70-210 f/4 (beercan) all together for $80 in local consigment store..

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Stan_P wrote:.

Adapter is located between lens and camera body. Minolta adaptor (I'mminolta 7D owner) is about 12mm thik. Light falloff because of these12mm is enough TO NOT keep your fast MD MC lenses..

Minolta MC/MD registration is 43.5mm, Minolta A is 44.5mm. Adding a 12mm thick MC/MD->A adapter means that, without glass, it is acting as a 13mm extension tube. That isn't acceptable for anything but macro work, because with that extension even with a long lens you'd only be able to focus close up..

So the adapter probably has glass in it. This would make it a teleconverter. Same rules apply as with all teleconverters..

But the Olympus E series has registration of 38.8mm. This means you can make an adapter 4.7mm thick with no glass, and it will put the lens right where it was intended to be, 43.5mm away from the film/sensor plane. And this has been done, I posted the link..

Interesting that Minolta made an adapter, albeit a compromised one. Canon did the same (with similar compromises) for FD->EOS. But I haven't seen an adapter for Minolta MD to Pentax/Nikon/Canon, as you originally stated..

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Nickleback,.

I've researched topic long time ago and don't remenber perfectly in detail why I didn't bother to use older lenses + converter..

My main point - too much trouble..

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My info and research could be outdated..

Take a look at following link and email the guys. You may very well use your lenses on Sony A-100?.

Http://www.pbase.com/pganzel/items_for_sale.

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