digital lens

[intregra2509]

yesterday i was at funan song brothers and i had enquire about dynax 7D and i was told that the lens for film camera will not work gd on digital camera .


how true is it ?

 

[satay16]

not so true. film lenses lacks coating, so it might lack the lack of internal reflections. but so far, my experiences with film lenses, pretty good, i totally dun see any diff.

 

[Johnston]

Me too, I dont see any diff when using D or non-D lenses on 7D.

 

[djork]

not so true. film lenses lacks coating, so it might lack the lack of internal reflections. but so far, my experiences with film lenses, pretty good, i totally dun see any diff.

what lacks coating? my 15 year old lens for my olympus film camera has coating...

what lack the lack of internal reflection? are you multitasking while typing this response?

 

[intregra2509]

Me too, I dont see any diff when using D or non-D lenses on 7D.

Thank for everyone opinion .

can i say that all minolta lens can be use at dynax 7D cos i am going to get 1 and currently i have so old lens with me ?

 

[DewaKarma]

yesterday i was at funan song brothers and i had enquire about dynax 7D and i was told that the lens for film camera will not work gd on digital camera .


how true is it ?

some film lenses are incompatible.. even though its in AF ..its chip miight not be compatible with the newer dslr.. like one of my sigma lenses...works fine with all film slrs but cant work with 5d,7d n alpha...so i juz got it rechipped... ..its best you bring along ur cam to try any lens u wanna buy...

 

[DewaKarma]

Thank for everyone opinion .

can i say that all minolta lens can be use at dynax 7D cos i am going to get 1 and currently i have so old lens with me ?

shld be fine is urs is all minolta lenses...unless its a third party lens...that u need to try on first..

 

[intregra2509]

shld be fine is urs is all minolta lenses...unless its a third party lens...that u need to try on first..

mine is all minolta lens . so is it fine ?

 

[Rashkae]

My 30-year-old Beercan lens works fine on the A100...

If you can tell us exactly what lens you were looking at we can give you more info.

 

[Agetan]

yesterday i was at funan song brothers and i had enquire about dynax 7D and i was told that the lens for film camera will not work gd on digital camera .


how true is it ?

Not true lar... they just want to sell you more stuff and earn more money...

Tell me if you see a different from the images below (one with beercan 20+years old film days lens) and one is with Latest 70-200 f2.8 APO G SSM.

Hart

 

[Rashkae]

yesterday i was at funan song brothers and i had enquire about dynax 7D and i was told that the lens for film camera will not work gd on digital camera .


how true is it ?

Song brothers are well known for having a great selection, and ripping you off whenever they can. Avoid them.

 

[DewaKarma]

mine is all minolta lens . so is it fine ?

yes bro..it shld be fine.. no worries..if cant use..sell me k ;p

 

[intregra2509]

Not true lar... they just want to sell you more stuff and earn more money...

Tell me if you see a different from the images below (one with beercan 20+years old film days lens) and one is with Latest 70-200 f2.8 APO G SSM.

Hart

for what i see , there isn't any diff .

 

[intregra2509]

yes bro..it shld be fine.. no worries..if cant use..sell me k ;p

thanks brother . i will give it a try .

 

[Trigger Happy]

just make sure the mounts fit, Minolta has the old MC/MD mount and then the A mount, which Sony has adopted too. the older mounts require an adapter (quite rare) and you lose AF.

 

[TME]

yesterday i was at funan song brothers and i had enquire about dynax 7D and i was told that the lens for film camera will not work gd on digital camera .


how true is it ?

Absolutely untrue and then some...

All the A mount lenses will work... AF, aperture settings, works perfectly... even 3rd party. Only Sigma has some problems cos they reverse engineer the A mount and even then a simple rechip is all that it takes to get it working with the 7D.

What the salesman was trying to say is that film lenses are not designed for digital sensors... that part is true. Hence in terms of quality of image, it's not going to be as good as a specifically-designed-for-digital-lens... this part is also true... however, since most of us hardly print larger than A4 or 8"x12", we're not going to see a difference... it's only in very large prints and when u pixel-peep at 100% on the computer that u might see any difference if u know what to look out for...

Otherwise, the above point is moot... so get the 7D and get some shooting done...