Opinions please

Both lenses are (were) among the best at the time of their introduction (70's). But, you will need to buy an adapter for them, the Minolta one is a 2x converter (I bought one new for about $50 late last year) and the third party ones run between $40 to $150 (you get what you pay).

All introduce glass, so there is some loss of quality. Plus, with the Minolta adapter, your you have the 2x plus 1.5x multipliers, leaving you with a 150 - 164mm lens.

There is another solution. If you really want to use MC/MD lenses, CameraQuest makes a Minolta to 4/3 adapter. Ok, you need to buy and Olympus, but at least you avoid having to use a teleconverter adapter (4/3 camera mount has the shortest sensor to lens mount distance allowing many different lenses to be used with full focus range).

Wayne

hi wayne, thanks. im up on all the conversion and adaptor stuff. i've even contacted several ebay vendors to try and get them to produce minolta/ft adaptors. if the demand is there, they would, but steve gandy has the only one for now. if i had a minolta or eos camera, theres no way i would consider an adaptor with a optical element. that would defeat the purpose imho

David Kilpatrick said:

In fact I don't think I have ever seen a rubber-grip, last type 50 mm MC f1.2 ...

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You don't because such a lens never existed.

David further said:

... and I am pretty sure they never made an MD version.

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But they did. The MC Rokkor 58 mm 1:1.2 was dragged along until well into the MD era. When it eventually was replaced by an MD version (in late 1978 or early 1979 IIRC), the focal length had changed from 58 mm to 50 mm. So we have the MC Rokkor 58 mm 1:1.2 and the MD Rokkor 50 mm 1:1.2 (the latter also in a non-Rokkor version) but no MC Rokkor 50 mm 1:1.2.

Personally, I prefer the MC 58/1.2 over the MD 50/1.2.

Regards,
Olaf
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Olaf Ulrich, Germany

I would like to see pictures of the cameraquest adaptor when you are finished. I have been looking at going Olympus for DSLR.

Are you planning on using them with the E-1 or are you going to do the adjustment to the lens / internals of the E-330?

Good Luck,

Glenn

the only image ive found of the cq adaptor is here:
h* p: www.rokkorfiles.com/photos/olympus/adaptor.jpg

he dosent show it at CQ.com. probably feels its better not for people to see what they're getting for 175 bucks, lol.

E1, E500, E3?, its simple to trim the aperture lever rather than butchering a camera or camera's.

i have some parts coming that i'll use to try & fabricate an adaptor. if im successful, maybe i'll undercut gandy's price & sell them for $169, lol. not bad for $10 worth of parts.

Olaf Ulrich said:

David Kilpatrick said:

In fact I don't think I have ever seen a rubber-grip, last type 50 mm MC > f1.2

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You don't because such a lens never existed.

David further said:

... and I am pretty sure they never made an MD version.

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But they did. The MC Rokkor 58 mm 1:1.2 was dragged along until well
into the MD era. When it eventually was replaced by an MD version (in
late 1978 or early 1979 IIRC), the focal length had changed from 58
mm to 50 mm. So we have the MC Rokkor 58 mm 1:1.2 and the MD Rokkor
50 mm 1:1.2 (the latter also in a non-Rokkor version) but no MC
Rokkor 50 mm 1:1.2.

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Thanks Olaf, you all are a wealth of information

I've got a later model 58 mm f1.2 converted by Pete Ganzel for the Minolta A mount. Not had much time or decent weather to learn how to best use it - a couple of examples here:

http://www.ukexpert.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=26364

http://www.ukexpert.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=26019

Andy

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My Gallery:
http://www.ukexpert.co.uk/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=4

thanks Bengeo, its a bokeh monster. the 58 1.4 is very good, but the 1.2 looks in another class. nice pictures!

Hello,

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I recently designed and constructed an EOS-MD FLANGE that allowes to use ALL Minolta MF lens on some EOS DSRL body.

Here a review of the eos-md flange:

http://web.tiscali.it/deploy/engv/eosmd.htm

My flange is designed with a register equal to 43.5mm (Minolta MD), so it is possible to achieve infinity focus without any internal optics
and so without any optical degradation on the final digital image.

I use this flange my EOS 300D and the operations (infinity focus) are perfect also with following lens:

• Sigma 15mm f2,8 fisheye
• MC Rokkor HH 35/1.8
• MC 85/1.7,
• MC Rokkor PG 50/1.4
• MC 200/3.5

ALL set at maximum aperture !!!

Obviously there are no problems with other lens with maximun aperture > f 2.8
(I tested/have also 50/3.5 macro, 35-70 3.5, 70-210 4, 300/4.5)

ALL EOS Body are virtually supported by my EOS-MD flange, but I havo no tested (obviously...) ALL EOS body.

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Best
Mauro

How was the 24mm VFC? I have heard that it is very sharp in the base setting, but what about when going concave or convex with the field curvature?

Also how useful is the VFC feature in real life use?