tom kf4wol

I am a Noobie.....I have a External Minolta 4000 AF Flash and, a Minolta 28 to 85mm Lens for my old Minolta 7000 Maxxum Film Camera.

I know this is most likely a real "Noobie Dumb Question", I bought a Nikon D-5000 DSLR Camera.

Is there adapters made to use either this external Flash on the hot shoe of the D-5000 or this lens on the Nikon D-5000??

I guess I have the Answer which is "Nope", but wanted to ask, sometimes things fool us..I bought Apple Macbookpro Laptop and then discovered thanks to Apples bootcamp on intel core computers I could partion drive and run windows or buy software such as parallels and vm fusion and run windows software...

So who knows, maybe someone has resolved this issue of Camera Accessories???

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tom

chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon

There are adaptors for the lens. Not sure about the flash, but there are many hotshoe devices/attatchments.

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

no to the flash. there are voltage? or amp? problems which can possible fry your dslr. go to keh.com click on Nikon digital, then click on flash. you will find plenty of reasonable priced Nikon and other manufactures flash guns made for digital cameras. many under $60. all with free 6 month warranty. (not going get that on ebay)

erniehatt Loc: Queensland Australia

I have used this flash via the hotshoe with my Olympus E520 with no problems, great flash unit. Ernie

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

older flash guns made for film slr's run on different something electrical, than dslrs and can fry the electronics. why risk it to save a few bucks. not an electrical engineer can't remember proper term.I have read it repeatedly not to put old flash guns on dslr's.

erniehatt Loc: Queensland Australia

Get a multimeter and check the trigger voltage, you will find it falls in required voltages. 1.85-2.5 v0lts here is a link that will show all flashes that are either safe or not so.Ernie
http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html

tom kf4wol

Hi erniehatt,

Thanks, I will do that, have a little electrical background from college and 35 plus years with electrical utility and fiddling with amateur radio's..appreciate that was not sure of parameters or pin outputs...

I know the pins are different, I I bought a Nissan speed light for the D-5000, was wondering if the old Minolta external flash could be used with some kid of a converted hot shoe device.....

I have a lot to learn in Photography and just came across a site where external flash are set off remotely by the onboard flash in certain applications, will also research the Minolta Flash and see if it has that feature..I doubt it since I purchased it in the late 80's .

In fact, I am surprised it still works and the capacitors in it or still could to take the build up charge to fire the flash, however it still works good on the old Minolta 7000 Maxuum.

Thanks for the feedback and site.

tom

erniehatt Loc: Queensland Australia

Sometimes these flashes will work only in manual mode, you can safely try it , it will either work or it won't. the voltages are safe. Ernie