Are Konica FS-1 lenses compatible with Minolta film SLR bodies?
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I have a Konica FS-1 35mm film SLR with a fast 50mm f/1.8 lens, and I’m considering moving that lens to a different manual-focus body because I’d prefer not to use the FS-1’s motorized auto-wind system. Since Minolta film bodies are easier to find, I’m wondering whether lenses from this era are interchangeable between Konica and Minolta, especially given the later Konica-Minolta merger.
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Sorry, but no -- a Konica FS-1 uses a different mount than either the Minolta MC/MD or the A mount.
Konica did buy out Minolta, but this was quite a while after the FS-1, FT-1, etc., had been discontinued. They also sold the Minolta camera division off to Sony quite soon after acquiring Minolta. As far as I know, there was never any work done on creating any sort of adapter to allow any compatibility between the two completely separate camera lines (and when Sony bought it, they got the Minolta camera division, but as far as I know, the old Konica camera division was long gone, so they didn't acquire any rights to it at all).
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No. The Konica FS-1 uses a different lens mount from Minolta film SLR systems, so the lenses are not interchangeable.
The relevant Minolta mounts from that era were the manual-focus MC/MD mount and, later, the A-mount. The Konica FS-1 belongs to a separate Konica lens system, and there was no shared compatibility just because Konica and Minolta merged years later. That merger happened long after these older camera lines were discontinued, and it did not make the legacy mounts cross-compatible.
So if you want to keep using your Konica lens, you’ll need a compatible Konica body rather than a Minolta one.
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