Sony A-Mount Lenses On A Nikon F-Mount Body
Apr 6, 2017 20:24:56 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
I have noticed that some Sony A-mount DSLR/DSLT camera owners on this forum have an interest in vintage Minolta Lenses. The Minolta Vintage Lenses have good reviews from websites I've seen. I know that Nikon has vintage lenses too. Has anyone on this forum experienced this combination with a DX camera. I realize an adapter is needed, and it will be manual focus. Appreciate any experiences. Positives or negatives. Thanks.
Apr 6, 2017 20:58:12 #
Assuming you are talking about older Nikkor lenses on a Nikon DSLR.Registration distance difference would require an adapter with a glass element in it in order to maintain infinity focus if trying to use Minolta glass on a Nikon DSLR. . Plus there would be a loss of functions. Best to just acquire older Nikkor glass to use instead on a Nikon camera. Plus it would help to know what Nikon DSLR you are speaking about as there are differences in how they are able to use older Nikkor & 3rd party glass..
Apr 6, 2017 22:21:54 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Screamin Scott wrote:
Assuming you are talking about older Nikkor lenses... (show quote)
I already have Nikon lenses. None vintage. I've heard the Minolta glass is very good, and prices are decent. Before I'd buy Nikon vintage, I would just buy Nikon refurbished lenses, or third party with Nikon F-mount.
Apr 7, 2017 07:43:50 #
If you are talking about mounting lenses from other manufacturers on a Nikon F mount camera you can forget it, as the Mikon flange distance is the largest of any modern 35mm-derived camera, and so even with the thinnest adapter no other lenses will focus anywhere near infinity. Conversely, it is easy to adapt Nikon F mount lenses to other manufacturer's bodies.
Apr 7, 2017 09:15:17 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
kymarto wrote:
If you are talking about mounting lenses from other manufacturers on a Nikon F mount camera you can forget it, as the Mikon flange distance is the largest of any modern 35mm-derived camera, and so even with the thinnest adapter no other lenses will focus anywhere near infinity. Conversely, it is easy to adapt Nikon F mount lenses to other manufacturer's bodies.
I saw two Minolta bargain priced lenses advertised on eBay. And I just wondered if they would work on a Nikon body with an adapter. I think I'll just stick with Nikon lenses. Thanks for your information on this.
Apr 7, 2017 09:30:13 #
mas24 wrote:
I saw two Minolta bargain priced lenses advertised on eBay. And I just wondered if they would work on a Nikon body with an adapter. I think I'll just stick with Nikon lenses. Thanks for your information on this.
I use my older manual focus lenses from Minolta, Leica, Konica., Canon, Pentax. et al on a few different Olympus mirrorless cameras with adapters. No issues with infinity focus doing them this way. My Nikon DSLR's will all mount & meter with my older Nikkor & Nikon F mount 3rd party lenses. By doing so, I can have focal lengths that would cost a lot more in their latest & greatest iterations. Entry level Nikon DSLR bodies won't meter with those older MF lenses.
Apr 7, 2017 09:37:13 #
Buy a Sony camera. That would be the easy thing to do, if you want to use the Minolta lens.
Apr 7, 2017 09:45:20 #
lacsar wrote:
Buy a Sony camera. That would be the easy thing to do, if you want to use the Minolta lens.
Not so easy if those lenses are Manual Focus as Minolta changed their mount when they introduced AF back in the 80's. You would need an adapter to mount them to a Sony DSLR unless you are referencing a Sony mirrorless camera & you would then still need an adapter to mount them..
Apr 11, 2017 00:43:09 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Not so easy if those lenses are Manual Focus as Minolta changed their mount when they introduced AF back in the 80's. You would need an adapter to mount them to a Sony DSLR unless you are referencing a Sony mirrorless camera & you would then still need an adapter to mount them..
Not correct. I have 3 Sony "A" mount camera's that need no adapter to use any lens that can be used on a Minolta Maxxum camera. Sony bought Minolta out and kept the same AF mount that Minolta had been using on their cameras. I have many Minolta lens that can be used directly on my Sony camera's. The older mounts Minolta used before the AF lens for the Minolta's would require an adapter. The Sony mirrorless camera uses an "E" mount lens and would require an adapter to use on the Sony "A" mount.
Apr 11, 2017 05:43:21 #
lacsar wrote:
Not correct. I have 3 Sony "A" mount ca... (show quote)
I was referencing older MF lenses, not AF ones so I'm not incorrect.
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