Manual lens on 7D - Help!

[nee_sung]

Hello everybody

 

I have an Imagon 120mm soft image lens. I bought a Minolta adaptor

long before the 7D came out, thinking that I can use it on the AS 7D.

 

Last night I tried it and the 7D simply refused to fire, saying

stubbornly "no lens attached". I think it needs some kind of metal

contact on the lens to sense lens presence?

 

How can I overcome this hi-tech thing?

 

Thank you all in advance.

[michael_hohner]

Read the manual. Then disable the lens release lock in the camera's settings.

[peterblaise]

KMADM7D SLR Lens Check Toggle:

 

Hi Nee Sung,

 

There's an [>] Arrow, [*] Gear (Custom) and [y] Wrench (Set-Up) on-screen button in the upper left corner of the rear panel display in record or playback mode,

 

Open the [*] Custom Menu,

 

navigate to page [3],

 

first item, which is [shutter Lock]

 

and toggle it from [On] to [Off].

 

See page 91 and on of the US Instruction Manual.

 

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Click!

 

Love and hugs,

 

Peter Blaise Monahon

 

Konica Minolta Olympus Contax Yashica Pentax Canon Nikon Nikkor Vivitar Tamron Samyang Cosina Fujifilm Ilford Kodak Agfa Adobe Hewlett Packard et cetera Photographer (have I left anyone out?)

 

peterblaise@yahoo.com

 

http://www.peterblaisephotography.com/

 

http://www.konicaminoltaphotography.com/

 

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PLEASE tell us how it works and SHARE SOME PICTURES, especially with anti shake - 'cause that's what we all want to know - how does anti shake work with vintage lenses, eh?!?

[nee_sung]

Thank you both. Sorry I didn't read the manual thoroughly.

[peterblaise]

Hi again, Nee,

 

No problem. There are MANY concepts that are only in the mind of the designers, in this case, the mind of Minolta, eh?

 

Minolta had to invent the "auto focus lens check" feature since Minolta invented auto focus lenses, and no one before ever thought about what to do if the lens failed - manual focus lenses never failed! ;-)

 

But when an electronic auto focus lens fails or is incompatible, software wise, Minolta realized that they didn't what you going out and shooting your friend's entire wedding and only realizing when the pictures came back that the lens was incompatible and it never focused or exposed properly!

 

So, the default is to ONLY take pictures with a compatible lens that is working (passes it's power on self test).

 

If you want to take a picture WITHOUT a compatible lens, then YOU take responsibility.

 

How would you know this unless you asked? Shucks, even the Minolta owner's manual doesn't say much about it - what's a "lens check" for?

 

It's like the owner's manual for a screw driver forgetting to tell you how to open a can of paint, which we all use a screw driver to do, right? ;-)

 

Plus, by asking, you have given us the chance to show other people who have not yet purchased the KMADM7DSLR Konica Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7 Digital SLE camera what it can do, so ...

 

Now, Nee, seriously, PICTURES - show us and tell us how the features of the camera work for you with an "incompatible" lens!

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Click!

 

Love and hugs,

 

Peter Blaise Monahon

Konica Minolta Olympus Contax Yashica Pentax Canon Nikon Nikkor Vivitar Tamron Samyang Cosina Fujifilm Ilford Kodak Agfa Adobe Hewlett Packard et cetera Photographer (have I left anyone out?)

peterblaise@yahoo.com

http://www.peterblaisephotography.com/

http://www.konicaminoltaminoltaphotography.com/

[nee_sung]

Thanks everybody.

 

I will try to post some images. Trouble is, I can't put people's pictures in the public domain without their consent. I will try some non-human subjects first.