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PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:02 pm    Post subject: Lens Turbo II Reply with quote
I'm considering purchasing a Lens Turbo II for use on my Sony A6000. Am I correct in thinking that in order to gain the maximum use for my different legacy lenses, I should buy the M42 mount version and then use a M42 adaptor on my Minolta/Konica/Canon lenses? Or am I missing something?


PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Lens Turbo II Reply with quote
DigiChromeEd wrote:
I'm considering purchasing a Lens Turbo II for use on my Sony A6000. Am I correct in thinking that in order to gain the maximum use for my different legacy lenses, I should buy the M42 mount version and then use a M42 adaptor on my Minolta/Konica/Canon lenses? Or am I missing something?


Sorry, Edgar, I believe that you are thinking exactly the wrong direction. You may buy a Minolta version and use some M42 lenses on it using an M42 to Minolta adapter on the lens in between but not the other way round. How would you convert a Minolta lens to M42?

So the problem is that you might have to buy different lens turbos for your different mounts and you are able to use M42 lenses at least on some of them, like e.g. the on the Minolta one.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Thomas, I'm thinking back to front! Embarassed

I mainly want it for my Minolta lenses but was wanting to be able to maximise its use by adapting other mounts to use with it. Anyway, if I buy the Minolta version at least I can use my M42 lenses on it as well. Smile


PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DigiChromeEd wrote:
Thanks Thomas, I'm thinking back to front! Embarassed

I mainly want it for my Minolta lenses but was wanting to be able to maximise its use by adapting other mounts to use with it. Anyway, if I buy the Minolta version at least I can use my M42 lenses on it as well. Smile


That's exactly what I have done as well. Wink

However, that was the first version of the turbo thing and to be honest, I don't really use it as it turned out that I prefer to use my GXR instead of the NEX and there is no such thing for the GXR in Leica-M mount. The new version II is also only available for NEX and Fuji.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DigiChromeEd wrote:
Thanks Thomas, I'm thinking back to front! Embarassed

I mainly want it for my Minolta lenses but was wanting to be able to maximise its use by adapting other mounts to use with it. Anyway, if I buy the Minolta version at least I can use my M42 lenses on it as well. Smile


Hi Edgar

Now that the Canon 5D FF is cheap enough to buy, how about just converting the lens mount on the body to MD mount altogether?

EOS-MD flange for Canon EOS
http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/why.html
http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/news.html

Last edited by stingOM on Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:28 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sometimes I use Zhong Yi lensturbo NEX EOS version , it's allow to mount many lenses, with EOS adapter , lens turbo can be a great tool , cheap alternative if really need full frame. Not perform equally well with every lenses and not made for pixel pippers at corners.
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