Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

I have a Tamron Adapt-All 17mm SP lens that I used on a Konica (with adapt-all adapter) DSLR. Has anyone used this same lens on a Sony a6000 with a appropriate adapter that I understand is available. Are you satisfied with the performance? Someone told me that they think perhaps the Konica mount Adapt-All adapter will fit on my Sony a6000 as is. Any thoughts on this. Thanks for any responce.

melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

No. But the Adaptall to E mount adapter is cheap, works fine.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

~$15 will get you an adapter for E-Mount. Purchase one, try your new 25mm lens and you be the judge.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

I used the 17 Tamron adapted - and was very disappointed and got rid of it quickly dispite decent reviews on it. The 17mm Vivitar is MUCH better - IF - you can find one.
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Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

I have this lens with FD mount adaptall added FD to eMount adapter and got exceptional result with my a6000. Fotodiox makes fine "dumb" adapters in my experience.

dmsM43

It has been my experience that film camera ultra wide angle lenses rarely work very well with digital cameras. I have a Canon FD 17mm f4 which has soft edges when adapted to a full frame Sony A7r, but pretty much soft all over on my Sony NEX 7.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Get the Adaptall2-to-Sony-eMount and replace the Konica K/AR interchangeable mount with that.

You could instead get Konica K/AR to eMount adapter... but there may be little reason to do so. It's just as easy to fully replace the interchangeable mount and there's little difference in cost. I see Adaptall for Sony on Amazon for $14-$15, while K/AR-to-Sony adapters are running around $13 or $14.

A possible reason you might prefer the K/AR to e-Mount adapter is if you happen to have some other Konica lenses that you wish to use on the Sony too. The K/AR-to-Sony e-Mount adapter could be used with them all, while the Sony e-Mount Adaptall interchangeable mount will only be usable with Tamron Adaptall lenses.

I recently got a Fotodiox Adaptall to be able to use a Tamron SP 90mm Macro Adaptall 2 on a Canon M5 mirrorless: EF-M mount. (I also happen to have Konica K/AR, Pentax PK, Canon EF/EOS, Canon FD, Nikon F, Olympus OM and some other Adaptall2 interchangeable mounts, should I want to use this or any other Tamron Adaptall lens on various vintage cameras in my collection. I deliberately don't refer to the Adaptall as an "adapter" because it's actually more of an interchangeable bayonet mount... Over the years I've use a bunch of different Tamron SP Adaptall lenses... some of them are really excellent.)

One of the great things about mirrorless is that a very wide variety of vintage lens mounts can easily be adapted for use on them.

Lens will work fine, but will be fully manual function... Both manual focus and manual aperture control. You might need to set the camera to "shoot without lens", since there's no electronic communication between camera and lens, so the camera won't "know" it's installed (I had to do this with my Canon camera... also needed to use some modern fully manual lenses such as Rokinon/Samyan, Opteka/Meike, Kamlan and others offer). There will be no EXIF lens data recorded, for the same reason.

Using the 17mm on the a6000 APS-C camera... well it won't be an ultrawide any more. It will still be 17mm, of course... but will act like any 17mm on a crop camera.... it will "act more like a 25 or 26mm lens" would on film/full frame. That's still reasonably wide and the good news is that the crop camera will use only the central "best" parts of the lens (if I recall, the Tamron 17mm is a bit soft in the corners on full frame/film... maybe some vignetting too? I'm nor sure... it's been a lot of years since I've used one. But any shortcomings like those could well be "cropped away" by the a6000.)

I assume it's similar to my Adaptall lens on Canon mirrorless (or any other fully manual lens, for that matter... even modern one). If so...

> You'll be able to use "M" strictly manual exposure mode on the camera (no Auto ISO), of course.

> You also will probably be able to use "A" aperture priority auto exposure mode.

> And you will probably also be able to use "M" with "Auto ISO" auto exposure mode.

All three of those work fine on my Canon.

> You cannot use "S" shutter priority AE or "P" program AE... or any other auto modes your Sony might have ("scene" modes? full "auto" point-n-shoot mode? I don't have an a6000, don't know what other modes it has or what Sony calls them). Any mode where the camera might want to adjust the lens aperture will not be able to function.

But, even so, it's easy to use a "fully manual" lens on modern mirrorless.... and the results can be quite good. For around $15, when you've already got the lens, it's certainly worth a try!