I was recently looking through a box of miscellaneus adapters and found a peculiar little lens adapter from Minolta - the "E adapter". Ha! An Exakta lens adapter for Minolta cameras. That was rather surprising, but since I have an M42 mount to Minolta, I guess it makes sense. There were a lot of decent lenses made for Exaktas (and Topcons that used the Exakta mount at one point), and putting them on a more modern camera body makes sense. I got out my Minolta X-700 (a fantastic manual camera, in my opinion), and put on the adpapter. I then attached one of my Exakta lenses, a Zeiss Jena Tessar, and I had a 56 year old lens on my camera, and I could shoot in aperture prioity if I wished. Cool. Now I'll goof around with these things and will post some images of my results later.
As much of a Nikon lover as I am... their mount pretty much is Nikon or nothing. So, it's fun to able to play around with other permutations of lenses and cameras. OK, so you Canon Eos people have had all kinds of adapters for years.
Here are some images of the gear:
4 comments:
That's neat, I didn't know there was an adapter for Minolta bodies. I have an Exacta-Canon FD adapter that I use quite a bit. There are some really nice Zeiss lenses available in Exacta mount.
Ah, some love for the Canon EOS! Mark, I'm surprised!
There is a Nikon-Exakta mount available as well... Check out www.kevincameras.com in the Exakta section.
Hey Mark! Your name just pops up all over the place! I was Googling for an Exakta-Nikon adapter and you were one of the first hits. I've also learned that these adapters, if you can find one, are expensive!
However, I do have the same Exakta-Minolta adapter you have. Found it on a 400mm f4.5 Piesker Tele-Picon (Made In Berlin) lens at a consignment shop in Ann Arbor for $50 total, adapter & lens.
At a garage sale, last summer, I obtained a 28/3.5 Angenieux, a 58/2 Zeiss Biotar and a 135/3.5 Rodenstock-Yronar along with a beautiful Exakta Varex VX that works but has pin-holes in the shutter. It even came with the original receipt. It was purchased by an American soldier in Germany in the mid-to-late 1950's. This group of equipment was $20 to me at the garage sale. So, while I have the VX repaired, I'll use the lenses on my Minolta SRT-102. This is the kind of stuff that continues to make using my old film cameras that much more fun to use.
Looks like you have some nice lenses there yourself, and, it's cool you can go Av with your Minolta X-700. We'll have to go out shooting again and have a Minolta/Exakta day.
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