Magnus Wedberg

Has anyone managed to test this so far? I'm interested in: (1) Does it work at all, seeing that the adapter firmware is pretty old by now?

Yeah, you are right, that's very weird. It's not the 1.4 either as that lens has a way wider front element. However, it IS a possibility that someone has really used the barrel from the Minolta to ...

Interesting. My 58/1.4 is an Auto-Rokkor PF. It has eight quite strongly curved blades.

This is absolutely a Minolta 50/1.7 with a different decor front. The front swap might have happened because the original front fell off; if it's a scam, it's one of the worst recorded ones. :-D Al ...

Quite seriously, it doesn't matter much, they are very similar. These are old lens designs and they were perfected many decades ago; proof is that the exact same designs are still manufactured. ...

Nope, it is not normal. I would get the lens repaired and adjusted; it is well worth it.

That is absolutely true, and the "Minolta DNA" in this case is a sort of physical control interface, a line that goes (as others have noted) from the "classical" interfaces of the 600si/Dynax ...

Camerapedia says these lenses can contain thorium: (1) Minolta MC W. Rokkor-SI 1:2.5 28mm (early variant, before radioactive glass impurity could be banned)

You can well say that, because the a700 has the same LSI architecture, meaning a main pipeline processor sourced from MegaChips of Japan. 5D and 7D used the original one in this series; a tweaked ...