I put a few nikkors on my Sony A900 to get a feel of what it's like for these nikkors in full frame. This is from a home made adapter. As far as I know, there's no commercial adapter for nikon to alpha mount. This will get me by until I save enough $$$ for a D700 or a 5D MK II... or to sell these.

Nikkor AF 200mm f2.8 ED:


Nikkor 135mm F/2 DC:


Vivitar Series 1 135mm F/2.3:


Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 AI-s


Nikkor AF 85mm f1.8


Nikkor 35mm F2 AIs


and back to the root:
Minolta AF 100mm f2

Are you able to get infinity focus? The only Nikon- Alpha adapters I've seen have a glass element.

I remembered all got infinity focus except for the 35mm f2 which could only go for around 20 feet. I'll try to trim down the adapter a bit more ... I think it will work.

interesting concept. are there anything that stands out in the nikon line over anything from the minolta line?

Jim,
Nothing that I have exceeds the minolta equivalences. However, my goal is not finding somehing are better or minolta/sony doesn't have. I am shooting with multiple systems (canon, minolta/sony, nikon, olympus 4/3) and thought it would be great to share some of the lenses (manual focus of course).
For the above list, I especially intended to use the 135mm F2 DC in place of a minolta 135mm f2.8 STF (that I gave up finding a good price for one). The surprise one is the nikon 200mm f2.8 ed, I think it's a little sharper than my converted minolta MD 200mm f2.8.

135 DC is very different than that STF.

Can you post a picture of the adapter?
I thought Nikkor F mount lenses would have a bayonnet which is too wide for the A-mount?

FWIW, Sony/Minolta mount is the second biggest 35mm mount, behind Canon.

I always thought bigger was better until I tried to stuff a bunch of Canon L-zooms in a Domke F2 and walk around San Francisco for a week. I would have traded back to Nikon in a heartbeat after that.

bigreen505 wrote:
I always thought bigger was better until I tried to stuff a bunch of Canon L-zooms in a Domke F2 and walk around San Francisco for a week. I would have traded back to Nikon in a heartbeat after that.

Stuff the equivalent Nikkors in the same bag and you'll eb equally unhappy. It's the primes (especially the MF ones) where the size win is.

I had a hard time locating my own thread .. but finally found it.

Thanks, douglasf13. After reading more about how DC and STF work, I have to agree. They are quite different. The pics I took with the DC confirmed it.

Wayne,
Here are the adapter pics. I used a reverse adapter (55mm, I think) and it fits tightly over the nikkor bayonet.