Alas, it appears the flash does have a proprietary foot on it. Dammit.
Welp! So much for that!
-- Walt
On 4/8/2012 9:42 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
The lenses are in greater demand than the camera body, it's less
expensive to find a working camera than to have the Maxim fixed. The
Minolta 50 is supposed to be very nice, I know they old Minolta 50's
in MC and MD mount were. The Sigma I have no idea but its from the
era when Sigma was known for Sig[nificant] Ma[lfunctions], there used
to be a web site dedicated to Sigma horror stories but that's long
gone now. Lastly doesn't that flash have a propitiatory,
(Minolta/Sony) foot? I would think it would if it was used with a
Minolta Maxxum.
On 4/8/2012 10:29 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Hi all,
So, last night a friend of mine from the local Fraternal Order of
Eagles aerie, where I was taking pictures of kids having fun and
hunting for Easter eggs, walked up and handed me a Minolta Maxxum
7000 with a Minolta AF 50/1.7 and a Sigma 75-200 f/2.8-3.5 along with
a Promaster 5200 flash unit, a few filters and a couple of rolls of
Fuji Superia X-tra -- for nothing.
The camera body doesn't appear to work -- at least not with the Kodak
rechargeable AAA's I put in it. But the flash does (which is great
because I haven't had a flash 'til now) and the lenses both appear to
be in excellent condition. So now, I just wonder what I ought to do
with the camera and lenses given the fact that you apparently can't
adapt them to a K-mount.
Any thoughts?
-- Walt
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