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I have a Minolta Dynax 7xi SLR camera with 2 lenses and want to buy a DSLR. Can I reuse the lenses? August 31, 2009 | 04:31 am

Alex

I want to upgrade my Minolta Dynax SLR to a DSLR. I notice the resale values of SLR's are understandably tiny so I want to know either if the lenses have any value, or whether I can reuse them on a new DSLR. They are both Zoom Xi lenses with Autofocus


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2 Responses to “I have a Minolta Dynax 7xi SLR camera with 2 lenses and want to buy a DSLR. Can I reuse the lenses?”

  1. Edwin Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Your lenses will work just fine with the Sony DSLR line, from the A200 all the way to the new full-frame sensor A900.

  2. AWriterWandering Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Indeed you can. Minolta no longer makes dSLR cameras, however Sony bought out that division of theirs. This means Sony dSLRs will use any Minolta lenses introduced after around 1985.

    I should however note that all but one Sony dSLR is a "crop sensor camera". This means the sensor is actually about half the size of a regular 135 film negative. As a result, your field of view for a given focal length changes by a factor of 1.5x. So 50mm will look more like 75mm for example.

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