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Hexanon lenses and Nikon/Canon bodies I have Konica Hexanon lenses for my FT-1 bodies. The bodies are giving me trouble and I'm considering newer SLR bodies to use with my old lenses. Will Hexanon lenses fit onto a Nikon F100 or Canon EOS 3, and if I need a mount, what would it be called? The lenses are manual focus. Are there any SLR bodies (film or digital) on the market (new or used) that have autofocus drives that can basically turn MF into AF?
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Jon Close |
Short answer, no. There have never benn any autofocus SLRs, film or digital, that can mount and use the Konica lenses. Konica quit the SLR business at the dawn of autofocus, adn their unique mount was not used by any other line. While there are adapters to fit many other old manual focus lenses to modern SLRs and DSLRs (especially Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Leica R, and Contax/Zeiss lenses to EOS), I have never seen any for adapting the Konica lenses. Due to the Konica lens flange to film plane distance being much shorter than for other brands, such an adapter would require optical elements to maintain infinity focus - but would necessarily also act as a teleconverter with some image degradation. Good as they are, Konica lenses never sold in numbers great enough to make a commercial adapter worthwhile.
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doug Nelson |
I read a lot of reviews of Konica optics in the manual focus SLR heyday. These lenses are too good to go to waste. Determine, from what you know about Konica, what the best, most relable body was, get one and have it CLA'd (clean, lubricate, adjust). You can scan your negs and slides to convert them to digital, or pay to have it done.
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Christopher A. Walrath |
Hi, Jim. I found this list of Konica cameras on wikipedia that accept AR mount lenses. Here goes. Konica Auto-Reflex (1965-1968) Known as the Autorex in Japan. Hope this helps if you can't get the FT-1 CLA'ed cheap. Thank you
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