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What type of adapter can I use? I have some screw mount lens from an older camera. these lens are good lens and I was wondering when I buy the Adapter to change the screw mounts into baynet lens will I lose anything in the ability of the screw mounts? The Minlota SRT202 that I have now I really like and would not want to go back to the Mamiya/sekar 1000DTL screw mount, due to this camera developed a light leak. Also I was wondering if the Minlotas have a stablizing lens or adapter to stablize the long lens? The iformation would be greatly appericated. Thank you Rusty Burton
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doug Nelson |
The old Pentax-type 42-mm screw mount lenses fit many cameras with an inexpensive adapter. Go to Lenses/Mounts and Adapters on ebay. You'll find one for 42 screw mount-to-Minolta (not Maxxum). An adapter usually has no mechanical linkage to the camera. It only maintains the proper lens to film plane distance. You'd set the aperture on the lens, and let your light meter read the light coming through the aperture and indicate the shutter speed. I don't think you'd be able to take a light meter reading with the lens wide open, as you would with a Minolta MC or MD lens. The only stabilizer I know of for these manual focus lenses is a good old tripod. Go for it. These old screw mounts, especially the Pentax and Carl Zeiss Jena from the old East Germany are excellent buys. Consider getting your Mamiya 1000 DTL fixed. It has both spot and averaging metering.
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