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| Thanks, Micromart for the new series on digital Photography which started today - 18th July, and the suggestion to re-use film camera lenses with digital SLR body in future. Does anyone have information on suitable bodies to reuse MINOLTA-FITTING LENSES now that Minolta is gone, please ? I have a Sigma 35 - 70 mm (not used often), and a Minolta AF 75 - 300 mm, which worked very well with film and slides. Finally, anyone have experience of using a converter to re-use lenses with other body fittings, please ? Many thanks ! RonC
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| Hi, Being a Nikon man myself, I believe that Minolta is now sold as Konica-Minolta (I could be wrong - no trace on Jessops for K/Min, but CameraKing selling Minolta lenses and other brands that will fit - no mention of converters though) but I think that Vivitar make (or did make) conversion adapters across makes but I think you will sacrifice any AF/auto metering etc. With modern AF lenese etc. it may no longer be worthwhile to stock them. Have you tried Ebay? Is the Minolta mount specific to Minolta - the old "K" mount for Pentax was also used by Ricoh I remember etc. etc. What actual mounts do your "old" lenses have and what body do you intend (or hope) to use them on in the future? In my experience when I switched over to Nikon from Pentax - my old stuff - body x 2, lenses etc. were almost worthless. Unless you have a modern camera - sometimes the cost of converters etc. is prohibitive compared to newer modern lenses/bodies. All the best in your search. Just Ebay'd this:- http://photography.search.ebay.co.uk/minolta_Lens-Mounts-Adaptors_
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The best-value DSLR on the market is the Canon 400D. If you can get a substantial discount on its predecessor, the 350D, that's worth considering, too.
I have no idea whether your old lenses are compatible, but I doubt it. Best to sell them and start again.
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| if your lenses are auto focus then the konica minolta 5d or 7d will be ok though finding either will not be easy. You can also have the Sony alpha which has the minolta fit. Though not all Minolta or sigma lenses are guaranteed to work with the camera. I myself in the same situation as yourself bought the alpha and all the lenses bar one a sigma 600mm mirror lens didn't work
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| Many thanks for those comments: I'll think again/..................... RonC
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There have been some problems with using older 35mm lenses on newer Dslr bodies, its to do with the sensor size in relation to the elements in the lens, thats why most manufactures make lens especialy for Dslr's, also lens technology over the past 5 to 10 years has jumped ahead and optical quality has gone up dramaticaly as weight etc has gone down. Use an old lens you have left over by all means but you will not be getting anywhere near the potential of the new digital kit. Also as mentioned before the 400D ( Canon) is a great bit of kit but shoot in RAW format it transforms it and bin the kit 18/55mm lens it is very soft around the edges and nasty and cheap to use and lets the body down badly.
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The best-value DSLR on the market is the Canon 400D. If you can get a substantial discount on its predecessor, the 350D, that's worth considering, too.
I have no idea whether your old lenses are compatible, but I doubt it. Best to sell them and start again.Well you know what they say about opinions but I shall offer mine anyhow. I consider the Nikon D40 to offer the best performance to price ratio of any DSLR at the moment. The cheapest 400D kit is £429.79 according to http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/cat1.html but the D40 kit can be sourced for £309, granted the 10MP D40X is £432.02 but unless you are a pixel snob the D40 is a hard deal to beat. Obviously someone with legacy lenses needs to consider carefully where to spend their cash, and Sony are committed to offering Konica-Minolta folks a clear upgrade path for many years to come but at the moment at least, someone coming new to the DSLR world could do much worse than go Nikon. Caveat (non Emptor): No-one in the digi-DLR world is both a Nikon or Canon fan, it is a bit like AMD-Intel, you take a stance, so take my opinion as just that, Jason and 100 million other Canon fans (made up figure) may argue strongly the other way with just as much justification. nb: as noted in the articles be aware that your film lenses have a field of view multiplication factor of (usually) 1.5x or 1.6X on consumer models and even 2.0x on Olympus DSLRs Just for the record, my DSLR is a Nikon D50 which is superb and if you can pick one up cheap is still a fantastic buy...
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Just for the record I have two Nikon bodies both 35mm an EL and an FT both classic early 70s vintage and with the lenses I have they are fantastic, heavy because there all made of brass and steel, and stuff that men in hard hats with sweat on there brow cast in furnaces before plastic took over the world. I also have a Canon 400D and it is very good at what it does, and I have gone totaly over now to Digital.
I have also used the D80 and it was very good in fact I think that at the top end the Nikon prime lenses are probably better than the Canon, but I prefer the way the canon range handles and the layout of the controls. My advise to anyone is go into your local big high street camera retailer and try both or all of them out after all you would not buy a car without driving it first. Then buy your choice online I always use cameras2u.com or warehouse express.com and save yourself a fortune.
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