tzemeng

<p>Update: I had another close look at the adaptor I bought from Camplus on eBay, with the idea of removing the lens and noticed the metal tube holding the lens in place was loose so it made my task easier. Turns out there are two "lens elements" of questionable quality (does not look like optical quality glass and not multicoated). I then mounted a Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens on my D60 and proceeded to do some quick tests including with a minolta bellows unit. I also have a 28mm f2.8 lens but did not do any testing with this.<br>

1. The softness is gone in the centre of the field (so the cheap glass elements were the cause of the softness, surprise :)<br>

2. The lens so mounted cannot focus beyond a few inches (which is fine for me since I intended to use these for macro work anyway) which means its totally useless of pretty much anything else.<br>

3. The apparent "depth of field" in the D60 viewfinder is not the same depth of field in the resulting image, which is much shallower. Things that look in to be in focus turn out to be out of focus.</p><div></div>

<p>In case anyone is considering purchasing the Minolta MD Lens to Nikon Body adaptor advertised by<br>

Camplus (on ebay) or<br>

Rugift http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/minolta-md-nikon-adapter.htm or<br>

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/258375331/Lens_Mount_Adapter.html.<br>

It is not clear in these product photos but a glass lens is in the product design, presumably to enable focus to infinity.<br>

I bought one unit from Camplus to attach my Minolta Bellows with 50mm f1.4 MD lens to my Nikon D60. Mechanically speaking, yes it does work. However the images produced are very very soft at anything other than minimum aperture. Even attaching the 50mm MD lens directly to the D60 produces unusably soft images, like shooting through a piece of translucent cloth.<br>

So, not recommended. I'm considering removing the piece of glass and use it purely as a mechanical mount to see what results I get. Anyone have any idea if that would allow me to use the adaptor for my bellows (not interested in focusing to infinity obviously)<br>

regards<br>

Tze Meng</p>