[OFB Cafe] Old Computers for Old Guys

[Rick Bowers]

At Thursday 7/17/2008 01:22, you wrote:
> > I also used to do a lot of photography work. 
> I've recently been > thinking about what to do 
> with my older film SLRs -- all Minoltas. I > 
> wish I could use the lenses for a digital SLR, 
> but Sony bought > Minolta and the older lenses 
> don't work with the new bodies.

Note: The formatting of this message came out 
horribly wrong. I use Eudora on Windows as my 
mail client. I couldn't see any of your response, 
until I expanded the message headers.

>Do you have the old manual focus Minoltas? I 
>thought everything in  the Minolta A/MAXXUM/Sony 
>α AF mount should work with the Sony DSLRs.

I've got an old SRT-101 and an X-700. The lenses 
are mostly Minolta Rokkor with one or two after 
market ones. None are auto-focus lenses. I 
believe auto-focus lenses started with the MAXXUM 
line. My cameras all pre-date the MAXXUM. :-(

~Rick
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