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Minolta MD & MC

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Jose M Estrada

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This is my first post, so this is a question regarding lens mounts. I am planning to buy a Scarlet 2/3 (Whenever is available) How can I use my Minolta MD & MC glass?
 
No plans for a Minolta mount anytime soon.. unless alot of people suddenly start raising their hands :)
 
Jarred Land said:
No plans for a Minolta mount anytime soon.. unless alot of people suddenly start raising their hands :)
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Jarred: Could RED make us sort of a generic front with a face and a bolt pattern that would allow easy attachment of various mounts? Think of the add on mounts as something like the RED nikon mount but the generic front would be short enough to accommodate the various Flange focal lengths like the 44mm FD and EF mounts. Should be very easy to make this short enough to get 38mm which would cover almost all of the common slr formats and even four-thirds at 38.67.

Alternate lens mount adapters for any of these less common mounts would then be very easy to make for us that have CNC mills and lathes - and wouldn't require any dismantling of RED parts to attach. Seems like this piece could be like the standard rectangular front but without the electrical contacts and therefore wouldn't have any electrical interface issues/dangers.

The ideal, if possible, would be to make the generic front with the same bolt pattern and distance to the sensor as is on the REDONE (which looks to me to be about 19m) then anything made for the REDONE would work (maybe add a couple blind holes for locator pins). I know it sounds like I'm shilling for Birger but, besides that benefit for a couple hundred Birger users, it would mean we could also easily do all of the mounts all the way down to LeicaM and even micro four-thirds.

I'm particularly interested in this for the 645 version so we can use 645 lenses like Contax Zeiss or Hasselblad, Mamiya, Pentax etc. Besides shooting 9K Imax/medium format style motion and still pictures, I think RED may find that there are significant scientific, industrial, and military applications for something like this.

Note: i just started a thread specific to a generic mount - interested to see what people think.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36891
 
Jarred Land said:
No plans for a Minolta mount anytime soon.. unless alot of people suddenly start raising their hands :)
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Well, time for start looking for and adapter, Because these are nice lenses. I do have at least 2 sets.
 
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