Use a film lens for a digital camera?
This may be an incredibly stupid question, I appreciate that. Just I have stumbled on some amazing camera lenses from a Minolta camera. I was just wondering if they would at all fit my Nikon D3000, or if I could get an adapter for it… Thanks for any help!
Added (1). I also have Vivalta and Sigori lenses
There's no such thing as a 'film lens', merely lenses which come from film cameras. But i'm almost certain the lenses from the minolta will not fit on the nikon.
They might fit on certain Sony models but not Nikon.
Depends on the lens
There are converters
A full manual SLR film camera will have different fittings than for an Electronic SLR film camera
It all depends on the age and type of lens
Not a stupid question at all.
Minolta MD and MC lenses are adaptable to Nikon, but you have to use an adapter with a corrective glass element in it if you want the lens to be able to focus to infinity. Unfortunately these adapters are cheap and the glass lens they put in them degrades the image quality so much, it's really not worth getting.
Now, if you can find an adapter that doesn't use corrective glass, you won't degrade your image quality, but since you can't focus to infinity, your adapted Minolta lenses will only be limited to macro use. It's your call. I've had good luck using photodiox brand adapters when adapting M42, k-mount, Pentax67 mount, and many others to my Canon digitals. They don't need corrective glass in adapters for Canon EF. Unfortunately adapting other brands to Nikon always needs glass.
NOT worth it. You will be FAR better off to get a Minolta body to use with the lenses. Bodies in excellent condition can be had very inexpensively and will give you far better results than using adaptors for the Nikon. If you just do not want to use 35mm film at all, I suggest selling the Minolta lenses rather than crippling them trying to adapt them to the Nikon.