MFT lens adapter experience?

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens adapters
for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have several old
manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50, $100 and $200 -
any comments?

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:59:41 -0700, RichA wrote:

On Aug 4, 8:07Â*pm, ray wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens
adapters for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have
several old manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50,
$100 and $200 - any comments?

Some of the cheap Chinese ones are not very good. At $20/each, you take
your chances.
This is likely a good one:

http://fotodioxpro.com/index.php/min...micro-4-3-mft-
system-camera-lens-mount-adapter.html

Thanks for the link. I had already ascertained that Amazon sells that
adapter for about $20 - they also show the suggested retail price for it
as about $110 - suspicious, no?

On 2012-08-04 20:07 , ray wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens adapters
for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have several old
manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50, $100 and $200 -
any comments?

I paid about $60 for a Fotodiox. Well made, solid, no frills.

Metering in with held meter and stop down the lens or stop-down metering
in camera (in my case).

--
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
-Samuel Clemens.

On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:32:06 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2012-08-04 20:07 , ray wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens
adapters for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have
several old manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50,
$100 and $200 - any comments?

I paid about $60 for a Fotodiox. Well made, solid, no frills.

Metering in with held meter and stop down the lens or stop-down metering
in camera (in my case).

Thanks, I appreciate the first hand feedback.

ray writes:

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens adapters
for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have several old
manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50, $100 and $200 -
any comments?

I've used Nikon and C-mount adapters to put lenses on an Olympus MFT
body. They all worked as advertised. Simple mechanical adapters are a
pretty safe bet in general, and that's what's needed to get manual-focus
operation on MFT. Mine were from the cheap end of the gene pool.
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:38:38 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

ray writes:

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens
adapters for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have
several old manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50,
$100 and $200 - any comments?

I've used Nikon and C-mount adapters to put lenses on an Olympus MFT
body. They all worked as advertised. Simple mechanical adapters are a
pretty safe bet in general, and that's what's needed to get manual-focus
operation on MFT. Mine were from the cheap end of the gene pool.

Thanks for the info. Is the image quality as good as one might hope? I
have pretty decent 35mm and 135m Minolta lenses.

On 6 Aug 2012 18:58:17 GMT, ray wrote:

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:59:41 -0700, RichA wrote:

On Aug 4, 8:07*pm, ray wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens
adapters for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have
several old manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50,
$100 and $200 - any comments?

Some of the cheap Chinese ones are not very good. At $20/each, you take
your chances.
This is likely a good one:

http://fotodioxpro.com/index.php/min...micro-4-3-mft-
system-camera-lens-mount-adapter.html

Thanks for the link. I had already ascertained that Amazon sells that
adapter for about $20 - they also show the suggested retail price for it
as about $110 - suspicious, no?

Not really, the first adapters were very expensive to buy,
but the market kicked in.

ray writes:

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:38:38 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

ray writes:

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the lens
adapters for MFT cameras. I got a Panasonic G3 recently and have
several old manual focus Minolta lenses. I see adapters for $20, $50,
$100 and $200 - any comments?

I've used Nikon and C-mount adapters to put lenses on an Olympus MFT
body. They all worked as advertised. Simple mechanical adapters are a
pretty safe bet in general, and that's what's needed to get manual-focus
operation on MFT. Mine were from the cheap end of the gene pool.

Thanks for the info. Is the image quality as good as one might hope? I
have pretty decent 35mm and 135m Minolta lenses.

I've mostly used it in low-light situations where the sensor isn't at
its best, but the better lenses look good enough to me. The one 75mm
f/1.4 c-mount video lens is, um, not very good, but that's pretty
clearly the lens rather than any interaction with the camera.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info