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This should help you determine if you can get by with the old lenses or if you need to upgrade your lens collection to work with modern digital SLRs. The only way to know for sure how well your old lenses will work on a new DSLR is to take them to a local camera shop and - if they will let you - try them out on some floor model DSLR bodies. When the camera doesn't communicate with the lens as well, several things may happen: 1) autofocus may not work and 2) aperture control from the camera may not work. Old lenses don't have the same electronic contacts as the new ones, which means that there is less communication between camera and lens. So, the basic answer is that yes, you should be able to ATTACH your old Minolta lenses to a new Sony DSLR. Old Minolta lenses are ONLY compatible with Sony digital SLR cameras since Sony bought out the entire Minolta DSLR line back in 2006. This is a good question, and one that has been asked several times - I'm glad that you asked it again so that the answer can now be available to everyone else! Minolta’s first twin lens reflex camera.ġ939 Minolta Flex Automat Twin Lens Reflex CameraĦ0 x 60mm on 120 film, first self-cocking (shutter) twin-lens reflex to be manufactured in Japan.Minolta Lenses Only Compatible With Sony DSLRs Note the spelling ‘Tiyoko’ in place of the later ‘Chiyoko’.ġ937 Minolta Flex Twin Lens Reflex CameraĦ0 x 60mm on 120 film. It was a copy of the German Plaubel Makina.Ħ0 x 60mm on 120 film, rangefinder and automatic film wind-on spacing (incorrectly described on the poster as ‘auto film rewind stop’).
The camera has a folding sports finder (the wire frame) as well as an optical coupled rangefinder and an optical viewfinder. The flash synchronisation worked, and the 105mm f/4.5 Anastigmat lens was sufficiently good to permit one commercial studio shot to be completed using the camera, though contrast and light transmission were both low. The SR-T 101 stayed in production for ten years with only minor changes. It was aimed at demanding amateur and semi-professional photographers.
It was equipped with a rollfilm back as well as plate holders. The Minolta SR-T 101 is a 35mm manual focus SLR camera with Through-The-Lens exposure metering TTL for short that was launched in 1966 by Minolta Camera Co.
Editor’s note: at Icon, we owned and used an Auto Press during the 1990s. 40 x 65mm on 127 film with scale-estimation focusing.ġ930 Nifca Sport Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, with a standard tilt and shift lens.Ĭompact camera using the first ever Japanese-made shutter.Ĥ5 x 60mm on 120 film, Minolta’s first diecast folding camera and the first use of the Minolta name.ġ933 Minolta, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first Minolta camera entirely manufactured in Japan.ġ934 Baby Minolta Bakelite body Roll Film CameraĤ0 x 65mm or 40 x 30mm on 127 film, with a Bakelite body and pull-0ut lens.ġ934 Minolta Vest, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĤ0 x 65mm or 40 x 30mm image on 127 film, the first Bakelite body collapsing camera manufactured in Japan.ġ935 Auto Minolta, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first press camera with a rangefinder to be manufactured in Japan.ġ935 Minolta Six, Collapsing Bakelite Body CameraĦ0 x 60mm on 120 film, collapsing Bakelite body.ġ937 Minolta Auto Press, Strut-Folding Dry Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first ever press camera with built-in flash synchronisation system manufactured in Japan. Ltd was established by Kazuo Tashima in November 1928, under the name ‘Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shoten’
In order to access all the content here, which includes high quality images of many historic cameras, you need to be a Subscriber to Photoclubalpha. If you know the period of the camera you want to see, go straight to the page. This page has been updated so that each period now appears as a separate section – simply select the next page to move on after reading each one. This page re-creates all the information from the original poster, complete with the photographs. even the old lumia 930/1520 have better cameras as samsung and lg. They are Japanese inkset CMYK sharpened for pre-press, with very dark gamma. Minolta MN67Z 20MP FHD Bridge Camera with 67x Optical Zoom The MN67Z packs a punch. The original image-files for the poster, which we have archived, are of poor quality. Many of the cameras shown – all fairly small on the poster – were well used and worn examples. IN 1998 Minolta published, for their 70th anniversary, a large poster featuring all the landmark cameras from their own museum and employee collections.