Thread: 35mm film..what to do?

Originally Posted by Chucaro

It is diferent bayonet mounting

Yes but dont tokina use a removeable mount that you just swap to suit the body in use ?

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Yes but dont tokina use a removeable mount that you just swap to suit the body in use ?

AFAIK, back in the last millennium, only Tamron made lenses that were of common design with adaptors to fit various brands' mounts.
Made sense in the old days when things were simpler but not nowadays with so many electronic thingamajigs and therefore, connectors and even computers on board.

I still use my minolta gear regularly, an X700 like yours (loaded with velvia), a SRT 101 (portra) and an XE1 (PRO160C). I have the rokkor 24, 28, 50/1.4, 58/1.4, 35-70macro and a collection of telephoto lenses. This stuff is as cheap as cheaps. I mainly use negative film, at only $3 for processing (no prints) from gerry gibs it's still cheap. Slide film processing is around $12 from fitzgeralds. You can buy film on ebay for btn $3/36exp upto around $15/36 exp for velvia slide film. I purchased a V700 scanner, so I scan them at around 10 mega pixel resolution and then work in the digital world (inc printing). So using cheap film it can cost as little as 16cents per shot. And film is not dead yet - kodak recently anounced a new negative film designed for scanning (very low grain). It's not for everyone, but I enjoy taking my time with the film equipment. If shooting sports or anything fast - forget it thou. I work with optics and couldnt bring myself to purchase a DSLR with kit lens, and good DSLR lenses cost a lot more than my film and development costs, especally if you try to match the image quality, speed and field of view of the old rokkor optics. Going to full frame sensor DSLRs would help, but they are too expensive for me at the moment.