I bought an adapter for 15 bucks from Amazon that allows me to put my vintage Minolta Rokkor lenses onto my Canon EOS R5. I'm surprised how well built/machined it is at that price and the lenses and adapter all fit together nicely - not too loose, not too tight. There are no electrical contacts so it is basically a piece of plastic with metal mounts on each end. The camera doesn't even realize there is a lens on so you have to go into the menus and set it to let you fire the shutter without a lens. Then everything works as it would with a manual lens - except for the auto-diaphragm. Basically you set the aperture on the lens, manually focus and set everything else in camera. I don't see why the camera couldn't confirm focus like it does when a regular Canon lens is on the camera in MF mode but it doesn't - so focusing can be a little tricky as it is purely visual. That being said since it is a mirrorless camera you can zoom in. Nothing about this set up is quick - but it is just a fun way to use some of my favorite lenses for hobby work.
This is my latest bike build. The lens ihere is the Rokkor 50mm f/1.4 - an early 80s lens.
Cuyahoga Falls - I didn't expect for these lenses to be very sharp for for a shot like this you can't tell - also - this wouldn't be the way to shoot these lenses to get the uniqueness of them - but I was here so.....
I switched to the 28mm f/2.8 for this image looking the other way.
I swithced over to my favorite lens for the rest of these - a 55mm f/1.7 - it has a really cool "bokeh" - the out-of-focus blur. I could only change the aperture in one direction - if I wanted to go smaller I had to take the lens off the adapter. I think this is because the pin design is different - but there is a possibilty the lens isn't working right. The lens is from the late 1960's and I believe it would have been the kit lens on a Minolta SRT-101.
Michael Owen's truck was a pretty good test subject for these images.
My favorite application of this lens is environmental portraits - so I will have to set up something to do that soon.
I'm excited to play around with this new set up some more - I'm sure I will have more insights soon.
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