Minolta Sony Lens

The minolta lenses I found have a smaller mount than the newer Minolta/Sony lenses. I would love to be able to use the older lenses I have on my newer dslr. Does anyone know of an adapter?

Yes. I found one at http://www.haodascreen.com/minoltaMDAF.a spx

2008-10-19 13:38:08 by lcarr00

Talking about the new/old lenses. Comparing old Maxxum to new Sony. Bad mouthing Nikon a little :P. Focusing speeds. And a flash. The baton has ...

I have a Minolta Maxxum 5 as well as a Sony Alpha 100. Their lenses are interchangeable. I have the opportunity to buy lenses from a Maxxum 7000 which I know is much older. Is the lens mount still the same? Or was that before Minolta switched to their latest mount? I'd just hate to buy lenses that I won't be able to use on my Sony.

Minolta introduced the A-mount when they released the Maxxum 7000 in 1985. Any A-mount lens made for the Maxxum will mount to your Sony. Minolta also offered an adapter to mount the older manual focus MC/MD mount lenses on the Maxxum.

Sony is expected to release a full-frame (24mm X 36mm) sensor camera in late 2008 or early 2009. Since the Maxxum lenses were designed for the 35mm format (24X36) they will be just fine on the full-frame camera.

2008-03-01 19:42:39 by Amber D

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I'm looking at a Sony a350 camera, but the reviews I'v been reading sat that the lenses aren't very good. I have an old Minolta XD slr with several lenses; As I understand things, these lenses are MD mounts (?). Would these lenses be completely compatible with the a350? Auto focus works?

I like Nikon better, but everyone has good & not-so-good lenses. Some of Sony's lenses are excellent.

The Maxxum/Sony mount is not compatible with the MD Minolta mount. There was (and you can probably still find) an adapter that allowed you to put the old lenses on newer cameras.

I had Minolta when the Maxxum first came out & had their own adapter. It magnified the lenses 2x, lost 2 stops of light, and lost some quality. Plus it was hard to manually focus when there was no indicator & the view was dark.

Old Minolta AF lenses will work fine on the Sony. MD lenses are MF so will never AF on anything.

Personally, I'd recommend buying a camera (Canon/Nikon/Sony) and not worrying about compatibility. The new lenses are great & using old lenses isn't fun.

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I have an older Minolta 7000I Maxuum series camera. I have heard that the lenses from this camera may fit the Sony digital SLRs. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I'd also be interested in hearing from Sony digital SLR owners. I know nothing about Sony as a camera maker. Thanks!

All Minolta Maxxum lenses will work on the Sony except for a couple of specific ones. I believe the Macro zoom 1X-3X doesn't and one other that I can't quite think of off-hand. As for third-party lenses (i.e. Sigma, Tamron, Tokina), their compatibility is a little less but still very well supported. I would look @ http://www.dyxum.com/ as this forum is dedicated to Minolta/Sony DSLR photography and is a huge source of information as well as a great community of knowledgeable people.

2007-11-03 21:43:00 by edkerns1

I recently bought a sony dslr and minolta lenses work for a sony camera. My uncle gave me a Minolta wide angle lens to use. I'm not exactly sure how to shoot a wide angle picture and i'm not exactly sure on how to use this lense.
It is a Minolta MaXXUm AF 28mm.

Any advice is great.

Well it is all pretty straight forward.

* Does it fit on your camera? If in doubt take your camera and lenses into a camera store ... they will help you
* The 28 mm, while a medium wide angle lens on a 35 mm SRL, the equivalent lens on your Sony would be 18 mm. The filed of view of the 28 mm will be like a 42 mm, not a wide angle but not nearly the "normal" focal length of 50 mm either.

2008-09-20 18:00:21 by Kimmy