is there a way to adapt minolta lenses to canon cameras?

Question

i have a canon 30d and a lot of minolta lenses, and being the frugal person i am i would like to find a way to use my current lenses

Answer 1

Can't be done. Minolta lenses (some) can only be adapted to ancient M42 mount cameras. Sorry for the bad news.

Answer 2

I had a Nikon F2 that, after I spent a fortune getting the camera body, I had trouble finding Nikon lenses in my price range for. A company called TAMRON makes (made?) adapter rings for certain camera, lens, swaps. You lose an F-stop or two, but you can use the lenses you have, and always go to a faster film to make up for it if grain in the picture is not going to be a problem.

The other way to go is just get a 2X converter. That will double the focal length of all your lenses, but it's still cheaper than getting all new dedicated base lenses. And you learn new ways to get around old problems by doing this.

Answer 3

Won't work.Quoted from source site:

Finally, and this isn’t strictly to do with manual focus lenses per se, but you can’t use Minolta Vectis or Four Thirds (Olympus, Kodak, Fuji, Sanyo, Sigma, Panasonic and Leica) lenses on EOS cameras. These lenses, in addition to being autofocus lenses, cast very small image circles; much too small to cover the imaging area of EOS cameras. In theory I suppose the Vectis lens design might cover an EF-S sensor, but it would probably be pointlessly expensive to make such an adapter.

Answer 4

Konica Minolta are now not making cameras, so you have 2 choices.

1) find a camera dealer who still has an adaptor mount you could use.

2) Sony now make cameras with the same mount, so get in touch with your nearest Sony dealer and ask them the same question.

Good luck! I have some good Minolta lenses too, so it looks like I am stuck with Sony when I buy my next camera unless I want to have the same headache.

Answer 5

Duct Tape

Answer 6

google it or go to a camera shop

Answer 7

duct tape

Answer 8

Use a strong big hammer.