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<p>WOW! You guys are right! I never would have tried this without you guys insisting it was there. Apparently the firmware update I did didn't take. Re-Flashed the firmware and now I change the option and it takes a picture with the slide reverser simply hand held in place without an adapter.<br> An adapter I orderd from Amazon should be here today or tomorrow, and the one from B&H later in the week. I'll update y'all when they arrive.</p>

<p>The Alpha needs to be set to "M" and have the body switch set to "MF" Even without a chipped adapter, my A390 will meter manually setting the shutter speed and take the shot.<br> I just checked. M and MF.<br> I get !NO LENS ATTACHED<br> Tried power on off with lens off an removing lens with power on or off. Always get the message.<br> This is a Alpha 100 I got it from the first shipment to the US. I had pre-ordered it. Talked to Sony support a few weeks back. Upgraded to latest firmware. The tech told me my hardware does not support a non chipped lens. It is one of the reasons I am considering a new body. I want one compatible with all my lenses and flash. </p>

<p>Thanks Benoit<br> Interesting. B&H web page ordering closed for 21 hours. Have to wait till tomorrow night. Found the VELLO LA-SA-T on Amazon but at 4 times the price. So I'll wait.<br> I'm surprised that people sell this on eBay as a alpha 100 , etc. adapter. It may work on other Sony Alphas but not the 100. It doesn't have the little circuit board to provide the lens present signal. Without the connections, I get a "Lens not connected" error on the Alpha 100. I called Sony about it. I have the latest firmware but, Sony says the 100 will not support turning off the check for lens connected. There is no option to do that. I will have buy a newer model to do that. It's a good thing I only need it to work on the Minolta film cameras.<br> Thanks again for steering in the right direction.</p>

<p>I have a Sony a100 digital camera and three Minolta film cameras. (Maxxum3000i, Maxum50. Maxxum7000)<br> I also have about a dozen lenses (some Sony, some Minolta) that I use on these cameras and all of them easily mount/unmout on any of the cameras. I have no problems with these lenses or bodies.<br> I bought a Telesar Zoom Slide Reverser. It is simply a macro lens with a way to insert a 35mm slide in one end and has "T" mount threads on the camera end.<br> I found a T-Mount adapter on the web that says it fits both Minolta and Sony a100. When it arrived, I tried to mount it on the Sony Alpha and a couple of the Minoltas. It was slightly to big a diameter. I could not insert it into either camera. I ordered a second one from eBay and it will insert into the bodies of all four cameras, but it does not lock when I twist it to the right. It is also to loose, and seems like it is to small, it slides when pushed side to side or up and down. If I mount the lense, the weight of the lens causes it to come off the camera. (I broke the Telesar when it hit the floor.) So I found a Kale slide duplicator and bought a third adapter. This one is just like the second one, other than the first was anodized black, this one is silver colored. Again, it does not lock when turned to the right, shifts, and easily falls off. It also seems to small. I compared it to the Sony Alpha 100 body cap and it is definitely a smaller diameter, It almost fits inside the part of the cap that goes into the camera rather than matching up with it.</p> <p>Am I crazy? Should I be able to screw the adapter to the slide copier lens and then just easily swap it from camera to camera like any other lens? Should it just line up the red dot and rotate about a quarter turn and click and lock? Those last two just keep rotating and come back off.</p> <p>BTW, I don't want to use this setup to convert slides to digital. I do that already with a 22 megapixel scanner. I just want to make 6 copes of a set of 800 slides.</p> <p> </p>

<p>I have several C4's and C-44r's.<br> I love them for their heft. No worry about camera shake. All that mass just doesn't shake easily.<br> I wouldn't say the shutter is noisy, instead, I'd say it has the sound of authority. You definitely know it operated. I've even gotten used to the sound it makes at each speed. As soon as I snap the shot, I know if I messed up and set the wrong speed because I can hear the difference between 1/50th and 1/100th. On thanksgiving day the whole family gathered at Cracker Barrel. I took out my C44r with the Argus 5 inch polished flash attachment and inserted a Press 25 flashbulb. As soon as I stood up a waitress noticed the big bulb and asked if that was a "real" flash bulb. I thought she might object to me setting it off in the crowded restaurant, but instead she asked a dozen questions and admired the camera. I had to explain when it was made, where I got it, where to get film , where to process it, and what to use to scan the slides. Once I explained that an 80 dollar wolverine scanner produced 22 megapixel digital images she was happy and I finally snapped a photo of our group. Those old Argus cameras aren't some piece of plastic junk like most modern cameras. The second you hand one to someone, they recognize it's the Mercedes of cameras.<br> Nearly every time you take a flash picture in a crowd, you aren't just taking a snapshot, you are holding an event. I've even gotten applause after the bulb fires.</p>

<p>Years ago my Cannon SLR system was lost. Six lenses, master and slave flash, two cases etc..<br> I went to a big camera store and spent the day selecting an entire new system. I settled on a a brand new Sony Alpha DSLR. I also already had the very first Sony Mavica with the floppy drive so that influenced me to go with the Sony Alpha. Naturally I bought several lenses, and two electronic flashes, each of those cost more than the alpha camera body. <br> I know I spent only 10% of my camera budget on the camera body, but i always felt my money was better spent on the rest of the system.<br> Now I'd like take some 35mm slides. I'd like to show some current slides to the family when we have a family slide show. I have a few thousand 35mm slides taken by my family starting in the 40's.<br> So, I figure I'd pick up a Minolta camera body off of ebay. They are so cheap that I bought two, a $2.95 MAXXUM 3000i and a $6.95 MAXXUM 7000 <br> I probably didn't get the best thing, but for less than ten bucks, It is a start....</p> <p>So, what should I be looking for? What is the best Minolta body for use with Sony AF lenses. I only plan to shoot 35mm slides.<br> I guess either of those will work, but should I be watching ebay for something special? </p>