How Do You Convert Minolta Camera Lens To Canon?
Moving from film to digital is a challenge, but even worse is the cost of abandoning a collection of lenses that won’t make the move. In general, it’s impossible to make older lenses fit a newer camera, but fortunately, there is a way to move Minolta film lenses to a Canon digital body. Understand the optical register. The major difficulty in adapting the lenses is the optical register, which is a technical term for the distance between the “film” and the lens mount. In an older Minolta camera, this distance is 43.5 mm, while in a newer Canon, the distance from digital sensor to lens is 44 mm. That half-millimeter is critical to proper focusing of the lens. Remove the existing ring from the camera. Depending on the model, it’s usually held on by four tiny screws. Using the ring as a model for the Canon side of the ring, and a Minolta lens for the other, machine a replacement ring that’s 43.5mm thick rather than 44mm. Place the new ring on the camera body. For the original Canon Digital
