Product Details

• Brand: Fotodiox

Features

• All Metal Design
• Built-in 1.4x Multi-Coated Focusing Correction Lens
• Removable Glasss Element for Macro Photography
• Smooth surface for effortless mount
• 24 Month Manufacture Warranty

Product Description

If you have a SLR or DSLR camera and other maker/mount lenses, the Fotodiox Mount Adapters allow you to use your lenses on the film/digital camera body. Sharing lenses has some distinct advantages. Certain prime lens just can't be replaced, and you save cost of purchase lenses. ­Fotodiox offers a range of adapter from large format to smaller format digital adapters. Adapting larger format lens, i.e., large format - medium format, medium format - 35mm, excellent edge-to-edge sharpness; and the smaller 24x36 mm image field helps minimize the effects of lens distortion and aberration.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Not quite a good solution
By Jeffrey Kniple
This tries to do the impossible it seems, and almost does. I have read many places that it is impossible to mount old Minolta glass on a modern Nikon camera due to the shorter lens to focal plane distance on the Nikon. This adapter attempts to solve that problem with an extra lens that modifies the image on the way to the sensor or film inside the Nikon camera of your choice.

While it did make it possible to see an image, I had the following issues:
1) The sharpness was pretty bad, especially on normal focal length lenses. I was trying to focus a 50mm lens and could not get acceptable results, even stopped down. This was better on telephoto lenses, but still not up to the standards of even a cheap used manual focus lens actually built for a Nikon camera.
2) On the 135mm lens that was decently sharp I couldn't focus to infinity.
3) Poor fit - for each of the lenses I tried there was some substantial wobble when the lens was attached. the mount between the camera and the adapter was fine, but connection to the lens had considerable play. It was disappointing.

This was a fun thing to play with for an afternoon, but it was quickly returned when I realized it wouldn't be satisfactory.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
it lets you use all your old glass
By Teresa M. Mansbach
I have an old xg-1 35mm slr with a 50mm f1.4 lens and a 70-200mm f4.5 lens. I just purchased a nikon d90 with the kit lens 18-105 f 5.6. The kit lens is fine, but I really wanted to take pictures with a very shallow depth of field. I thought I would have to purchase a new f1.4 lens, but I saw this adapter for $40. It came in four days and works exactly how I wanted it to. Granted I still have to manually focus my lens, but it's great to have until I decide to buy a 50mm f1.8 with AF. I'm going to use it soon for my sister's graduation. Im going to set my camera up with my 200mm lens and the adapter, so I can get a sharp high resolution image of her walking up for her diploma.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Shipping took over 2 weeks, but the product works.
By C. Brott
This lens adapter has allowed me to mount my old Minolta MC 50mm f/1.4 lens and my Vivitar MC 70-210mm f/4.5 lens. I am really pleased with the build quality and the fact that it just works!

In case anyone is wondering, this adapter works with both MC and MD lenses, even though it only says MD.

I bought this item and it shipped 4 business days after I paid. I didn't receive it for 14 days after that! I am very disappointed with the shipping, but at least it's here now.