Identify lens mount

[donald_miller5]

<p>I thought there was a lens forum but I do not see it but maybe someone here can help. I have a Soligor 400mm 5.6 lens that mounted on a Rebel eos apparently with an adaptor. I can not locate the adaptor and was going to search EBay but I need to what mount the lens is. I know the photo is not ideal but may someone who looks at it can say hey I know what that is. Thanks ahead for your help</p><div></div>

[jon_shumpert2]

<p>Hi Donald. I can't quite make out the letters on the lens mount, but they look like M/MD which is probably for Minolta MD mount. I just took a lens off my Minolta x-700 and the mount looks similar.</p>

[donald_miller5]

<p>Yes they are M/MD. I did not notice them before. I assume that your lens has M/MD which I hope/assume makes it definitive. Thanks again</p>

<p>Don</p>

[jon_shumpert2]

<p>Mine doesn't have the letters on the mount , probably because it has the Minolta name on the lens. The notch on the lens flange is in the same location.</p>

[donald_miller5]

<p>The adaptors are inexpensive so I am giving that one a shot anyway</p>

<p>thanks</p>

[steven_clark]

<p>You might as well pick up adapters for OM, FD, and M42 mounts while you're at it. Those are the ones with no forward compatibility to a digital system so the lenses can be had cheaply if you're fine stopping down manually.</p>

[donald_miller5]

<p>good idea</p>

[steven_clark]

<p>I did forget that you can't adapt FD without extra optics: Like EF FD had a very short film-to-flange distance so it could adapt other lenses without trouble, but as a result there's no room to adapt it's lenses to other cameras an even on an EOS camera it still needs an adapter less than zero mm in thickness to keep infinity focus. A cheap glassless one would work just fine for macro though. It doesn't come up with my mirrorless EOS-M.</p>