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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6252 |
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Below is a list of old A-Mount lenses which are incompatible with current DSLR bodies. Note that this list may not inlcude all incompatible lenses. You can report missing incompatible lenses by replying to this post.
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craiginscotland ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Posts: 1195 |
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When you say incompatible do you mean they won't work at all. I had the Sigma 20/1.8 and it worked on my 7D, and the serial number started with 1.
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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6252 |
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really?... HotDuck mentioned here that this list was issued by sigma!
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craiginscotland ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Posts: 1195 |
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The only problem I had with it was in the EXIF data it showed as 28mm instead of 20mm but the lens worked perfectly apart from that.
here, this pic was taken with it and as you can see it says 28mm at f2 but it was taken with the 20mm lens. |
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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6252 |
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i have updated the list to reflect.
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madcat207 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2007 Country: United States Location: NM Status: Offline Posts: 1716 |
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Also add the original Sigma 400mm f/5.6 (non-APO). While later versions were given new chips, there still are copies out there with the original incompatible chips (and Sigma has no more replacements). I am not sure about serial numbers, so it is YMMV.
Craig - in regards to you lens - are you the first owner? If not, it is quite possible that it was rechipped by Sigma (or a 3rd party), who for some reason used a 28mm chip instead of the original 20mm (perhaps somebody had a 28 laying around and rechipped the 20). Edited by madcat207 - 03 January 2008 at 21:21 |
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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6252 |
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madcats idea is really a good story.. craig?
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craiginscotland ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Posts: 1195 |
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I wasn't the first owner so it is possible. I bought it about 1 year after the 7D came out and used on a 800si for about 1 year before I got my 7D but I never knew how old the lens actually was.
On reflection your explanation makes sense, some techy guy at Sigma is more likely to have put the wrong chip in as a re-chip rather than it happening on the actual production line. That also means there might be quite a few lenses with the serial number starting with 1... out there which do work on the DSLR's. Edited by craiginscotland - 03 January 2008 at 21:45 |
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yellowballoon ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 22 August 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 425 |
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The only problem I had with my Sigma non-apo gun-metal 400mm f5.6 was it didn't quite fit on the camera's thread so I filed it down a bit and it works a-ok now. It's a really old battered one too...
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-Yes sir, it has a 12mp CMOS sensor, ISO6400 capability, 11 point autofocus, HD capability, Live-view, SSS, one of the most technologically advanced...-Great, and how do you load the film?
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madcat207 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2007 Country: United States Location: NM Status: Offline Posts: 1716 |
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Short of trying it out on the camera, they are hit or miss. I know of one in a shop that is incompatible (will not AF or stop down on my a100); then again, I have another with a good chip. If you are buying from ebay, make sure a seller can confirm digital compatibility.. |
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matthiaspaul ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 08 September 2006 Country: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 940 |
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Hi all,
Being aware of the fact that many of you won't be able to read it, I somewhat hate to post one link after another to our German Minolta forum... ;-) Be assured, my sole intention is to spread and share information in both directions for the benefit of both user communities (and actually all Minolta/Konica Minolta/Sony photographers). It happens, that we started a similar collection of lens vs. body compatibility issues some years ago in these two somewhat lengthly threads: http://www.mi-fo.de/forum/index.php?showtopic=4477 http://www.mi-fo.de/forum/index.php?showtopic=5294 Our approach includes compatibility issues with film bodies as well. Actually, a portion of the data has been collected even before the advent of the Konica Minolta 7D, so we may benefit from new listings of incompatibilities at Dyxum just as much as you may benefit from the older user experiences at our place. Unfortunately, I don't currently have the time to participate in the data exchange myself, but I hope this posting may help a bit in "connecting" communities, and that some of our members who are also Dyxum members will help building up this new collection as well. Greetings, Matthias Edited by Kiklop - 13 March 2008 at 12:38 |
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kiklop ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum owner Joined: 14 July 2005 Country: Croatia Location: Rovinj Status: Offline Posts: 10564 |
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Thanks Matthias !
And .. as soon we do have some reliable list, i'm prepared to modify our lens database a bit and include this info in it for easier access. |
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We may have questions waiting for answers !
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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20650 |
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There is this list which may be of help . See.
It has a link in it to discontued lenses. Edited by brettania - 04 April 2008 at 06:28 |
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dutch-alpha ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 01 February 2007 Country: United Kingdom Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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sigma 24mm-2.8 does not seem to work on Alpha-100.
Anyone with same experience? |
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