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Violet1991

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Hey there,

My situation is that I'm despirite for a macro lens! Thing is my dad has one (and quiiite a few other bits and bobs) from his old film camera.

My Q is that if I invested in a converter, so that the lenses could fit onto my cam, what would be the limitations? And would it make any difference to using a new (for digi) lens? I obviously understand it would be manual.

The old lenses were for a minolta, and my cam is a canon eos 350D.

Thanks, Vi x
 
With macro I tend to shoot in manual anyway so loosing all the fancy extra such as metering isn't a problem. You will probably need to manually focus then set the aperture and speed as a best guess then make adjustments using your cameras histogram or similar. This will be fine for things like coins etc but it will be a lot of work for things like insects that might move.
 
Violet1991 said:
Hey there,

My situation is that I'm despirite for a macro lens! Thing is my dad has one (and quiiite a few other bits and bobs) from his old film camera.

My Q is that if I invested in a converter, so that the lenses could fit onto my cam, what would be the limitations? And would it make any difference to using a new (for digi) lens? I obviously understand it would be manual.

The old lenses were for a minolta, and my cam is a canon eos 350D.

Thanks, Vi x
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short answer yes, provided you can cope with manual focussing

it's easiest on m42 lenses, any details on your dads camera and lens ;)
 
Okay, thanks :D

Right, my dad's old cam is a Minolta X-700. and he's got a few lenses, a tele converter and some addon type things (which he can't remember what they are called). I wrote down all their names for you...

Tokina 28mm 1:2.8
Tokina 80-200mm 1:4
Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm 1:1.7
Vivitar 28-210mm 1:1.3-5.6 MC Macro Focus Lens*
Vivitar MC teleconverter 2X-5
AICO 31mm, 21mm and 13mm addon things...

thanks again, Vi x
 
I'd definatly need an estimate value of them all for that, and dad's concent, but i wouldn't say no to considering that.

Vi x
 
The following adapter:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Minolta-MD-MC...ash=item230228ddfe&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262

has a glass element in it. This means that it will probably be possible to mount your MD lens on your EOS body via the adapter, but image quality is likely to suffer quite a bit and the glass element will also work as a teleconverter, changing the effective focal length of the lens.

I've tried something similar with FD lenses in the past but IMO it's not worth it if there is a cheap glass element that destroys the image quality you could otherwise have gotten from an old lens.

Best lenses to mount on an EOS via adapters are Olympus Zuiko, Contax Zeiss, M42 lenses and Leica R lenses.
 
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