The Sony NEX (5N and 3) In Use With Two Minolta Legacy Lenses
Just a quick post with two videos showing what you can do when using old school Minolta Lenses with a Sony NEX. The video above features a Sony NEX-5N (price & specs)with a Minolta 135mm f2.8 Rokkor-PF lens. The video below a Minolta 50mm Rokkor-x f/1.7 lens with a Sony NEX-3. Both by YouTube user Beau Reyes.
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Sony NEX-5N price check: Amazon, B&H, Adorama, J&R, eBay
Sony NEX-3 price check: Amazon, B&H, Adorama, J&R, eBay
ckapp
5 months ago |Nice work! I bought the f2.8/28 and the f1.7/50 Minolta Rokkors on eBay for my A99. Can’t wait to play with them! Got the infinite focus adapter as well. It has an extra element in it. $45. Cool to see what happens with the legacy glass. I like the effects.
Max
5 months ago |Probably the adapter’s extra element gonna ruin the IQ, hahaha. An A99 user should know that.
e
5 months ago |ADMIN – ADAPTER – ?$20.00? Nice – It is time an updated full list of
NEX Adapters and their capabilities like – AutoFocus, etc
Vlad3D
5 months ago |Both videos are unavailable in Germany
Gabriel
5 months ago |Awesome. I got my 135mm Rokkor very recently. My goal is for hockey/figure skating shooting but not so sure is going to workout with the manual focusing unless I focus on an area and wait for the players to come by that focused spot
PhotoNut
5 months ago |So basically, Admin has no news for this week. I don’t really care about Youtube users and their adventures with Minolta MD lenses. That stuff is both old school and pedestrian.
I’m surprised that you’re not covering CES and that you really don’t have any more decent SONY Alpha rumors.
RickJ
5 months ago |Yeah,should rename the site from Sonyalpharumors.com to nexfanboys.org
RickJ
5 months ago |Yeah,should rename the site from Sonyalpharumors.com to nexfanboys.org
mamapeeg
5 months ago |That guy who made the videos also uses alphas, heres a good video of his a99 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKhPYVnN_fU
Also in pritty sure all nex cameras have the “a”
WLPL
5 months ago |The problem is that the quality of those video recordings is low: white balance is incorrect, color is unnatural and desaturated, contrast is poor, focus is imprecise etc. It takes a lot of effort to set the WB alone on NEX with legacy Minolta MD lenses just to get a barely decent shots and the author didn’t do it. 135mm lens on NEX makes a set that is not balanced and even on a tripod it is difficult to maintain the focus (a tripod collar for the lens would be needed) – all that shows in those recordings
Rob
5 months ago |It takes a lot of effort to set white balance? such as having a white card with you and snapping one pic on the custom WB setting?
WLPL
5 months ago |Unfortunately it is not so easy with legacy lenses (rather poor “color transmission” with digital sensors) and “tricky” light conditions. Custom white balance gives unsatisfactory results.
WLPL
5 months ago |Be prepared to go thorugh custom-custom procedure with manually adjusting WB offset to get a realistic rendering of grass color etc. Granted – NEXes have the required menu options but it takes time and some skill to get it right especially with older Minolta MD lenses.
FK
5 months ago |It would be interesting to see how these Lenses would perform on a proper Motion-picture Camera as the PMW-F3 F5 F55 , BMCC or something similar.