Minolta 135 f/2.8 MF

I found an old Minolta 135 f/2.8 manual focus lens. This is from an olr SR mount Minolta. I can't seem to find any info on this lens anywhere, which makes me think its nothing special.

Has anyone ever used this lens? Can I easily adapter to an EF mount (I've seen that the registration distance on some Minoltas are different than Canon)? The price the guy guy wants is $30 it includes a Minolta SR-IS camera a Nikon FG a Vivitar flash for each and a tripod. The only thing I may want is the lens so the rest would be sold, if possible.

Thanks,

Joe Conklin

minolta is unfortunately one of the mounts that cant be adapted to EF.(that's if i remember properly)

it can be used for sony's alpha mount camero

Imhave the cheaper Minolta MD 135F3.5. It is sharp and compact. The F2.8 version was more expensive and reported to be a good lens.
There are adapters for Minolta MD, but they use a lens to compensate for the difference in the mount. I don't know how well they work. I haven't tried the adapters, even though I have an excellent Minolta MD 85 F1.7.

Last time when I researched Minolta was a no go for mount for eos owners. Adapters with glass are poor and you can get so many other not bad and cheap 135 f 2.8 manual lenses easily adapted for canon.

In the 70's I worked for a newspaper in North Carolina. The Minolta 135 was my long lens which
I took photos of Football, basketball whatever was needed. It was all I had and it performed
very well.

However that was on Tri-X film so I have no idea how it would be on todays cameras.

There are scads of adapters for the EOS-M, but all adapters for the EF mount contain optics and are effectively low power teleconverters. Probably not worth the effort unless you feel you have to be using that lens. I have a bunch of SR mount Minolta lenses too, but I just put them on my EOS-M and enjoy the fact that they're still getting some use.