Anyone tried Tamron/Minolta 2.8 zooms on an MFT ??

Hi,

I've got an E-PL1 (plus kitlnes, 9-18 and 20/1.7) and I'm thinking of getting a novoflex adapter to use a few of my old Monolta/Sony lenses:

Minolta 28-75/2.8
Tamron 17-50/2.8
Tamron 90/Macro

I know it's pretty useless to try the longer zooms like 70-300 G or the 18-250 because of weight / shake and focussing problems, but I thought the above mentionned lenses could do fine. Especially the Tamron 90 should be really good - it's the best lens I ever used in my life. The 28-75 would give an 56 to 150 at constant 2.8 ... not bad, and the Minolta glass is very fine.

Has anyone tried some of these ? Are there more inconveniences than maunal focussing (CA, unexpected problems..) ? How did you find the work with theses kind of lenses on an MFT in pratice ? I have an VF-2 and like to focus manually so I'm not afraid of loosing the AF ...

Please share your thoughts ! And images, if there are any !

Kind regards,

Stefan

Although you can manually focus them , how do you set the aperture?

I noticed one adaptor had a lock/open ring, does that turn the aperture closing pin?

Very good question ! I hope somebody can answer that. I'm totally confused, I didn't think about that before.

Does somebody know ... please ??

Stefan