Or set to A for Aperture priority, and shutter speed gets set automatically if you’re out of range you’ll see up/down arrows in the viewfinder. Meter reads and shows over/under arrows in the viewfinder but it’s more like guidelines than actual rules. You can set your meter mode switch to Manual, you know what that is. The XD-5 was stripped of a couple of minor features (aperture readout, film transport check) but retains most of the goodies, most importantly the electronically-controlled Seiko shutter and the innovative multimode adaptive metering. The XD-5 is the ‘little brother’ to the hallmark XD-11 (aka XD-7 in the US), a professional-quality modern multimode Minolta SLR mostly made of metal. And I think I can sum up my impressions in a word: sweet. Actually, I bought this one after the 101 but received it first, due to, er, differences in shipping methodologies. The XD-5 is to the SRT 101 what the P30T is to the K1000, and now I have a nice two-body Minolta kit. I myself use half a dozen Minolta MD lenses on Nex and it's a breeze.Well when you have one, you have to have two. Without peaking, focusing would be slow and difficult.
I highly recommend Sony Nex series, it has focus peaking and is great for using old manual lenses. Thanks in advance for your time.ĭSLRs have longer distance between lens mount and sensor, so using MD lenses on them would require an optical adapter and those are not helping with IQ at all. Thanks to Armom for starting this thread. These are often being replaced with newer tech. I'm more likely to find a used Nikon or Canon around here. My question(s) really revolve around being able to adapt these lenses to bodies from different other mfrs. I've read that I would need an adapter to mount these to a SONY Alpha body. I would like to get a digital body with which I can use these. These lenses are for my SRT- 101 and SRT 102. My problem is similar to Armom's, only a bit more so. I'm making my first steps in returning to photography after several decades of absence. Unless they've had it fixed, there is a chance any KM DSLR will fail totally on you and be too expensive to repair. These are dust particles stuck on the sensor, and you'll have to follow the manual's instructions to blow them off.īest avoid the Konica Minolta DSLRS - they have better colour than the Sonys (or so most Minoltian's believe) but they do have a reliability issue in terms of a latent defect called First Frame Black. Occasionally you'll see little dark patches in shots of the blue sky. Oh - the other thing you'll need is a big blower gadget. If you wait till after Christmas, there is always a noticeable drop in Ebay auction prices on cameras - people seem to have run out of money. But these are fairly expensive second hand compared to the APS sensor cameras. The cameras which won't magnify the lenses are the "full frame" ones, namely the Sony A850, A900 and A99. So you'd need a lower power lens to get wide angle shots, like the 18-70mm kit lens. So that your 70-210mm lens will act like a 105-315mm lens. Only problem is the cameras with the APS sized sensors (which is most of them) increase magnification of the lenses by 1.5X. And you can get used bodies very cheaply on Ebay - ignore the ridiculous BUY IT NOW prices of people who refuse to accept their cameras have dropped over $1000 dollars. But am not sure.Īll your Minolta AF lenses will work in the old Konica Minolta DSLRs (5D and 7D) and in the later Sony DSLRs starting with the Sony A100 and onwards. I think the Sony Alpha line is comparable and am willing to look for a good used model. I hope this post is in the correct location. Can someone lead me in the direction of a good (decently priced) digital body. I just take family pics and am not familiar with the tech. I would like to find a digital body for these lenses. I have a Minolta QT so Maxxuim, a Minolta AF 70-210 mm F4.5-5.6, and a Minolta AF 35-80.