Lens mounts · Minolta/Sony A · Discontinued
Minolta/Sony A is a full frame slr / dslr mount introduced in 1985.
Full frame imaging circle· 44.50mm flange distance· SLR / DSLR, since 1985
Every body in the catalogue that takes Minolta/Sony A lenses, newest first. Prices are the best new price from a UK retailer we track.
Discontinued lens system. Minolta/Sony A lenses are no longer made new. Bodies and lenses still work and are still sold, but the range will not grow.
6 Minolta/Sony A lenses in the catalogue. Native means made by a company that also makes Minolta/Sony A bodies; third-party is everyone else.
Top three per genre from the lens engine, scored on this lens's own format. The same scores you see on each lens page; Gear Builder re-scores them for the exact body you pick.
A plain adapter is a spacer: it can only add distance between lens and sensor. Glass from a mount with a longer flange distance adapts cleanly onto Minolta/Sony A; glass from a shorter one needs corrective optics.
14 other mounts adapt onto Minolta/Sony A without corrective glass. Focus and framing only; autofocus and aperture control depend on the adapter.
Current camera mounts that accept Minolta/Sony A glass: 9 with a plain or thin adapter.
The lens-ecosystem scores Camera Match uses when it ranks Minolta/Sony A bodies for wildlife, sports, portrait, macro, food, architecture and astro. Scored 0–10 from the native lenses buyable new, with the reasoning shown.
No ecosystem scores recorded for Minolta/Sony A yet.
The battery models and card types Minolta/Sony A bodies use, and the most common filter threads on Minolta/Sony A lenses. Each links to the cameras or lenses that share it and what to buy.
Lens counts and picks come from the catalogue and the lens engine, so they change as lenses are added. Ecosystem scores are researched per mount with a source and feed Camera Match's lens-range feature. How scoring works · All mounts