Jesito
Joined: 24 Aug 2007
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Location: Olivella, Catalonia, (Spain)
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 Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Jesito wrote:
Hi Bill,
I understand you mean Minolta MD mount.
My first SLR was a Minolta X300 and I was very happy with it.
They are quite cheap at the eBay.
I'ts a mostly manual camera with the battery powering only the light meter. It performed very well with the Tamron Adaptall lenses.
Regards,
Jes.
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Zooms Sigma 70-300, Tamron 35-135 and 70-210 short, 70-210 long, 28-70 CF Macro, 35-70, 35-80, Vivitar 70-210 KA, Tamron 70-250.
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Rangefinders Chinon 35EE, Konica C35 auto, Canonet 28, Yashica Lynx, FED-2, Yashica electro 35, Argus C3 & C4, Regula Cita III, Voigtlander Vitoret (many), Welta Welti-I, Kodak Signette 35, Zorki-4, Bessa-R & L, Minolta Weathermatic, olympus XA2
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Seele
Joined: 17 Apr 2009
Posts: 742
Location: Sydney Australia
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Seele wrote:
There is no such thing as "MD mount".
The mount itself is called SR mount, and there are features added to it. The original coupling for full-aperture metering is the "MC", and the extra coupling arm enabling the aperture to be set by the camera is "MD"
While Minolta lenses with automatic iris made after the advent of the XD models all have MD couplings, only four Minolta cameras can utilise that: XD7 (aka XD or XD11), XD5, XDS and X700, while others only need the MC coupling.
In that sense, the X300 can indeed take MD lenses, it only needs MC lenses to give full functionality. However, the earliest Minolta cameras prior to the Type V chassis are not compatible with lenses with MD coupling as the raised nameplate fouls the MD coupling arm. |
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