There are four major generations of minolta manual focus lenses with several. The minolta srmount was the bayonet mounting system used in all 35 mm slr cameras made by minolta with interchangeable manual focusing lenses. The rokkor files began as a tribute to minolta manual focus cameras, lenses and accessories, and if you came looking for this you have a treat in store. Get the best deals on 200mm focal camera lenses for minolta when you shop the largest online selection at. The system used a lens mount called amount, with a flange focal distance 44. The md adapter is easy to use unlike the fd canon adapter. I would be surprised if you can even manual focus with the xi lenses because they use the af motor in the camera for manual focus. Uscamera has light seal kits for over 80 different camera makes and models in stock. Builtin ttl meter, manual metering, center weighted averaging, needle meter display, original model.
Most of the lenses in the md minolta series use this mount. It is named after the minolta srt line of cameras which were the first minolta cameras to offer this feature. Minolta srt 200, 201, 202 instruction manual, user manual, pdf. Save up to 40% off sale price and get a 180day warranty. I have some decent prime lenses for each more wides on the minolta and portraittelephoto on the leica, and of course chose an srt 200 for my minolta body. I shot with the srt series for years, in fact my first cameras that i worked with were srt 100 and an srt 200. Today id get it at this link directly to them at ebay see how to win at ebay. Minolta changed lens mounts with autofocus so they do not work with the srt cameras. There is no link on the cover image, but below each cover youll see the different language versions, which is a link to a larger image. Recalibrated to modern batteries, the srt 200 is every bit as nice as i remember, and while i could have had an srt 202, a better camera in every way for only a few dollars more, i chose. I started with a srt 101b model and with a standard 55 mm rokkor mc f1,7 lens, rather than using a zoom.
This video walks through the details of the minolta srt 201 film camera. Minolta srt 200 chrome 35mm camera body at keh camera. Srt101,srt100,srt201,srt200, srx fstop viewfinder display added. Minolta af a mount pz power zoom and xi series lenses do not support af on the laea4. Its not the sharpest or fastest lens, but its photos have that desirable minolta contrast and color.
Minolta srt 200 201 202 owners manual download, owners manual, user manual, minolta film camera, 51 page pdf 4. Even the oldest minolta lens 1958 auto rokkor and rokkor will fit and function on the newest minolta camera 2004 x. The 200 4 is excellent from wide open and also features low dispersion glass to combat ca, as the 52. The minolta sr mount was the bayonet mounting system used in all 35 mm slr cameras made by minolta with interchangeable manual focusing lenses.
I never heard about craig optic lenses, although i was a minolta user for many years. Most of them have mc or md on the lens but some very early ones may also say sr. The 2004 is excellent from wide open and also features low dispersion glass to combat ca, as the 52. Minolta srt200 35mm slr film camera body only for sale. This was the kit lens for the budgetpriced srt 100, 100b, 100x, and 200 slrs. If the image below looks like your camera, click below to see. Your first impression of the camera would be the small size but heavier feel. Used minolta camera lenses for sale buy or sell online. These lenses incorporated a lever that communicated the aperture of the lens to.
At the end of the srt production run, minoltas engineers took the srt 100, and gave it a bit of an update, creating the srt 100x. Canon and nikon cameras are snatched up quickly at garage sales and small antique stores. I still own the first film slr i ever bought in the mid 1970s. The rated list of minolta mdmc lenses on the sony a7. Of course, it is quite a bit heavier than most of todays digitals and, in a camera bag with several lens, it will workout more than just your photographic skill. Minolta line up sr3, srt101, x700, 9000 the one with the crossed xssupposly thats rare, a cheap qtsi it may be cheap, but works very well. Several iterations of the mounting were produced over the decades, and as a result, the mount itself was sometimes referred to by the name of the corresponding lens generation f. My lenses are an f250 minolta and a vivitar series 1komine 2. Find great deals on ebay for minolta 200mm f4 macro. The minolta amount camera system was a line of photographic equipment from minolta introduced in 1985 with the worlds first integrated autofocus system in the camera body with interchangeable lenses. The minolta sr series began with their first one, the sr1 in 1959. Slides blown up on the screen show the two zooms to be every bit as good as the straights as i call nonzooms.
With the potential of the a7 series of cameras the standard minolta s are ok but its the exotic minolta lenses that can sing on the full frame e mount. Some of the early ones did not automatically stop down but they still work. The minolta af lens manual front covers are shown below. This increased the fastest shutter speed to 1s the same as the prolevel models and added a hot shoe. I bought my minolta srt200 at a camera show in tucson where i was. Guide to minolta md lens mount adapters for sony emount. I had to buy an adapter that would allow me to mount the lenses to. My research indicates that the 2870 is a sigma lens, tweaked by leica, and the 75200 is a minolta lens. Press it once to stop down, and again to reopen the diaphragm. Of course the k has a hot shoe, which wasnt added on the srt line till the 101b, or till it became the 201. The minolta lenses may possibly benefit the nex system just because they are not rangefinder glass. It only works when the shutter is cocked when the film is wound. For bangforthebuck, the minolta af 70210mm f4 lens deserves mention. The om mount is the most stable of any mf lens mount, there were never any changes in the manual focus series.
Sr the sr mount is the basic mount to fit most of minoltas slr lenses to. It was aimed at demandig amateur and semiprofessional photographers and therefor packed with many outstanding features as the new topoftheline minolta slr. This lens look pretty much like its mc ii sister with a mc i style focussing grip and it lacked the meter scale. If you are still shooting film you can of course use any minolta mc or md lens on a wide range of old minolta sr filmcameras like the minolta xd7 or x700. More than a decade and over a dozen camera models later, minolta released the srt mcii, which is a.
It introduced the popular mc interchangeable bayonet mount for minolta lenses. I am giving someone a lens for free with a lens mount for srt101, but he has a srt202. Very much in the original pentax k mold but it feels more robust and rugged to me. I believe that any manual focus minolta lens will work. Unfollow minolta srt 200 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Online shopping from a great selection at electronics store.
Checking over a minolta srt 200 35mm film camera body. The lens line introduced in 1974 had a rubber coating, but different from the mcx edition. Minolta started this low budget lens line, which was sold in north america only, in 1972 with a single lens, the 5mm 1. View and download minolta srt200 owners manual online. Using 1980s minolta lenses on a modern sony digital camera. It allows you to mount a minolta md or minolta mc lens to sony emount camera with a precision mechanical adapter. Owning a used minolta may not excite the younger generation. They have more than one lens per manual, because many are basically the same. Minolta konica are very successful with other products, go here. The usa model remained designated the srt200, while the europeanasia. Because of the flangefocaldistance of minolta sr lenses all adapters for dslr cameras either contain an optical element which will reduce image quality a lot or you. Do minolta lenses fit sony e mount sony alpha full frame. Novoflex adapter for minolta md or mc lens to sony emount.
The best minolta vintage lenses for the next 50 years. For classic minolta mc and md series lenses, look at this web site. The minolta md zoom 70210 mm f4 is the successor of the well known 75200 mm f4. Minolta srt 101 35mm slr film camera body only for. Ditto, i am also using 2 md mount manual lenses and i am very happy with them. I still have several lenses that work on this body all the way from 28mm to 200mm that i could be talked out of cheap, as far as film any 35mm film will work in it, the 45mm lens that you say is on it, is a great lens to start learning withif you have the srt and a.
Minolta srt 200 201 202 owners manual download uscamera. Minolta produced an extensive array of lenses for the manual focus slr system, and thankfully, given the lens mount remained the same throughout the history of the company the lenses from any era will mount onto all manual focus bodies, with varying degrees of functionality. Buy or sell used minolta camera lenses at keh camera. The pz lenses, in fact, are not usable at all on the laea adapters, while the xi ones can only be used with manual focus. Peter blaise monahon, notes on minoltastyle 35mm manual focus sr, mc, md, and x600 lens interchangeability.
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