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Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Started Aug 3, 2020 | Discussions
minolta2175 New Member • Posts: 7
Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Hallo, The software developer who manufactured the adapter in 2015 is launching a new edition. He has replied to my mail, now there is the possibility to get such an adapter.

Greetings Ewald

Hello Ed:

Thanks for your mail!

The V adapter will be in reproduction soon. I have setup a Facebook page called MonsterAdapter( for now it only has LAEA4r info), you can get the remake info from there once I have any updates.

Or you can contact me with this mail anytime

John

neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Will this one have auto focus ?

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mirthseeker Regular Member • Posts: 257
Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

The LA-VE1 Monster adapter is now on the Official Monster Adapter LA-EA4r Facebook Group page. Manual focus. Provides aperture control, and transmits focal length to the camera so that antishake works correctly.

neilt3
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Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

A lot of people have asked about this , it's a shame they haven't cracked AF with the new one .

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OP minolta2175 New Member • Posts: 7
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The rush is low, only orders count.
There are only 8 lenses, but the effort for the AF is too high.
We should honor his work and buy the adapter.

neilt3
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Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

minolta2175 wrote:

The rush is low, only orders count.
There are only 8 lenses, but the effort for the AF is too high.
We should honor his work and buy the adapter.

I bought one of the original batch five years ago .

On the facebook page it said ;

The supported lens list (all 8 lenses):
17mm F3.5
50mm F3.5 Marco 1:2
400mm F8 Reflex
22-80mm F4-5.6
25-150mm F4.5-6.3
28-56mm F4-5.6
56-170mm F4.5-5.6
80-240mm F4.5-5.6 APO

However regarding the list of supported lens , it seems wrong to me though as the 25-150mm F4.5-6.3 and 28-56mm F4-5.6 cannot be manually focussed , even on a Minolta Vectis SLR .

So actually only 6 lenses are supported .

When you say "The rush is low, only orders count" , their would be more orders if it supported AF .

It can't be far off making that happen as there is clearly a handshake as they reset the lenses too infinity on shutdown .

Just a thought .

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OP minolta2175 New Member • Posts: 7
Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Hello neilt3, I've already seen your posts in 2015, but I didn't get the adapter from John, some of them were faster than me. Now I already have a sending number, but no adapter yet. Up to now 10 adapters were on offer on EBAY USA, they were sold quickly. An adapter with AF would be better, but whether it will come is very unlikely, so one without AF is better. He brought the MonsterAdapter-LA-EA4r-Upgrade-Kit and an adapter for the Pentax lenses on the Sony E-bayonet, but whether there will be a Vectis AF adapter ???. Greetings Ewald

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Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

minolta2175 wrote:

Hello neilt3, I've already seen your posts in 2015, but I didn't get the adapter from John, some of them were faster than me. Now I already have a sending number, but no adapter yet. Up to now 10 adapters were on offer on EBAY USA, they were sold quickly. An adapter with AF would be better, but whether it will come is very unlikely, so one without AF is better. He brought the MonsterAdapter-LA-EA4r-Upgrade-Kit and an adapter for the Pentax lenses on the Sony E-bayonet, but whether there will be a Vectis AF adapter ???. Greetings Ewald

A Pentax K to Sony E mount autofocus adapter ?

I wasn't aware such existed .

Could you provide a link to that ?

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OP minolta2175 New Member • Posts: 7
Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Hello, I suspect that some who have a Pentax and did not get a DSLM-FF from Pentax, they bought a Sony DSLM-FF, for which the adapter is intended. Greetings Ewald

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minolta2175 wrote:

Hello, I suspect that some who have a Pentax and did not get a DSLM-FF from Pentax, they bought a Sony DSLM-FF, for which the adapter is intended. Greetings Ewald

I'm guessing that DSLM stands for digital single lens mirrorless? More commonly I've seen the term MILC instead: mirrorless interchangeable lens camera.

Anyway, Pentax does not have a full frame mirrorless. They did offer the K-01 (APS-C), which was technically mirrorless, but still used the standard K mount and registration... just no mirror or OVF.

Pentax, for APS-C and full frame, seems intent on sticking with K mount and DSLRs. Their mirrorless offerings have much smaller (Q) or much bigger (GFX) sensors than full frame.

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OP minolta2175 New Member • Posts: 7
Re: Minolta V Adapter for Sony E

Hello,

So far there have been 3 offers from the Vectis adapter on EBAY USA.

11/01/2020 3 pieces   .....  11/10/2020 7 pieces  ....  11/12/2020 2 pieces

Even if there are only a few, they were quickly sold out, even without AF. For a camera system that only existed for about 4 years and whose lenses are 20 years old, this is a very good start.

Greetings Ewald

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