Minolta Rokkors?

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Opinions on using Minolta Rokkor 58 1.2 on Canon and Nikon bodies?

Ive heard alot *** the Rokkors and how they have lovely bokeh and sharpness. Ive heard about Eos conversion, but rarely anything about Nikon comversion. While Ebay stocks adapters, I've heard they are useless and spoil the image quality.
Does anybody over here shoot with this lens on a Nikon or Canon? If Nikon, does anyone in the UK do the conversion?

Thanks
 
Ricky said:
Saad,

If you first venturing into legacy manual focus lens, I would suggest you to frist try with cheaper lenses, it's not easy to nail focus manually without split prism, but you can get AF confirm in the Nikon.

You are better off getting a native Nikon Manual focus 50mm 1.2

Check out thenikonguy video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32li9zzxEBA&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8zXpdGQaaE&feature=plcp
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Funny how you mention it. I have a Nikon 50/1.2 AIS and a set of other manual lenses. Focussing is quite a hassle initially, but you get the hang of it. I am more worried about the use of adapters. Some people on Flickr have reported their use of Rokkor to Nikon adapters for use on Nikon bodies, and they aren't to happy with them...
I am also unable to find someone in the UK who could convert the mount for me.
 
Because of the much longer focal flange distance of the Nikon F mount (46.5mm) compared to the Minolta SR mount (43.5mm). you'll lose infinity focus if you just use a pure adapter with no corrective lens element. However if you use an adapter with a corrective element, then the said element will degrade quality and act like a short teleconverter (~1.3x).

With the Nikon F mount its near pointless trying to adapt other mount lenses to it unless you use a corrective element as there are no lenses apart from Arri PL mount motion camera lenses, T mount and Adaptall lenses with the appropriate F mount adapter (their designed to have an interchangable mount) and medium format lenses that have a flange distance longer enough to put an adapter in.
 
Being able to focus to infinity, i.e objects that are an 'infinity distance' away will be in focus. Your focusing to infinity if you turn the focus ring to the furthest distance it goes, if the lens is unable to focus to infinity because of the adapter ring then objects beyond a certain point will be unable to be brought into focus.
 
sssheikh said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is 'infinity focus'?
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Infinity is the distance beyond which everything is in focus, whether they're at the end of the road or the moon. It's marked on the lens with a horizontal figure 8.

The actual distance varies with focal length and aperture. It can be quite close with a super-wide, or a few hundred yards with a long telephoto.
 
This very short thread may help you.

Rokkors are truly excellent lenses, a lot are shared designs with Leica (usually with the Leica being made from Minolta sub assemblies).

I would rather have a Minolta lens than a Nikon one any day, IMO they are far superior.
 
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