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LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity

Started Jan 23, 2019 | Discussions
Sp3cialK New Member • Posts: 1
LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity

Hello DPreview community, it has been a while reading a lot of topics on this website but today i have to ask you for something.

I bought a 70 210 MD Minolta zoom. The one with Macro possibility. But the thing is that i can't focus to infinity. The focus ring seems to be around 180° misplaced.
Do you know any resource that will allow me to repair this? Did you already experiment with something like this?

Thank you,

Alex

FrancoD Forum Pro • Posts: 19,261
Re: LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity

Can you post a photo or two of that ?

MinoltaLuv New Member • Posts: 1
Re: LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity

Hi,

Check out this thread for adjust infinity focus on your lens.

https://pbase.com/pganzel/image/87381765

mirthseeker Regular Member • Posts: 257
Re: LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity
1

Check out this guide on disassembly of the MD lens (French, google translated).

https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&tab=wT&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suaudeau.eu%2Fmemo%2Frep%2Fzoom_minolta.html

Edit: Just noticed that the OP asked in 2019!

neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: LENS 70-210 Minolta Zoom ring can't focus to infinity

MinoltaLuv wrote:

Hi,

Check out this thread for adjust infinity focus on your lens.

https://pbase.com/pganzel/image/87381765

I think after two years the O.P either got it fixed or got rid of it .

We'll never know as they couldn't be arsed replying to their own thread !

.

Incidentally , the link you gave won't help them anyway .

The lens they asked about was the manual focus SR mount lens , your link is for the autofocus A mount lens .

While they share the same optics , the components of the lens body are different .

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