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I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything about John Shaw here in the past. He was extremely influential to me in my late teens and 20s. He published Closeups in Nature, the Nature Photographer’s Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques, and Focus on Nature.

I devoured those books and my wife and I spent all of our time hiking with my Minolta and a Bogen tripod. Those books caused me to get extension tubes, focusing rails, and really get active in nature photography and macro photography.

Anyway, here’s a video of John Shaw talking some about his digital photography, Nikon cameras and lenses, and his workflow.

I found this video showing the conversion of Minolta lenses to work on Canon EOS cameras. Here he is converting a Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50 1.4.

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 Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.4 conversion to Canon EOS from motleypixel on Vimeo.

I previously posted a video by the same person on converting a PF 58:

Video of how to get Canon EOS Full-Frame Infinity Focus w/Minolta MC-Rokkor PF 58/1.4 lens.

This ends up being more of a metal working video than a photography video, but I thought it was interesting.

This video shows how to machine the rear element of a Minolta 58/1.2 to allow it to work in a Canon full frame body like and EOS 5D Mark II without having the mirror strike the rear element.

He gives a good explanation of what he is doing and you can see how he does the process on his mini lathe.

One other nice thing about this video: It’s an example of shooting video using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a 42mm adapter to use other classic glass. He used a Kiron 24mm f/2 and Pentax Super Takumar 55/1.8. I’ll have more examples of 42mm adapter video in another post.

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Full-Frame ∞ Focus w/Minolta MC-Rokkor PF 58/1.4 lens. from motleypixel on Vimeo.