Okay, enough speculation. I'm heading to my camera closet to dig out the two Mamiya SLRs that are buried there. Let's see, the first is a 1000TL. It's a camera I used for about years, in the late seventies,shooting at least 5000 rolls with it. I probably made more money with that camera than any other I've ever owned, although I was trying harder. But I digress, back to the camera. It has a mechanism for stopping down the lens that appears to be identical to that of the Spotmatic-- i.e. a paddle device at the bottom of the box that pushes a pin on the lens. The 1000 DTL appears to be identical, except for the switch that changes the meter from averaging to spot. The lens is an Auto Mamiya-Sekor 55/1.8. It has an auto/manual switch, and it is nearly identical to a Super Takumar 55/1.8, albeit a bit larger. I can mount the lens on a Spotmatic, and -- it works. I bought the DTL in 1990 or thereabouts, thinking it would be fun to own another of these. It lasted about a week before the mirror started sticking, but it's otherwise pretty close to mint. Paul Stenquist
Peter Alling wrote: > > his camera. It always p***** me off that he > Actually a friend of mine had a Mamiya 500DTL and the open aperture > metering system was present on could borrow my Takumar's but > I couldn't use any of > his lenses. It may have been that his camera was subject to some kind of > Frankenstein repair that > melded a DTL and a DTX. I don't remember the lenses having an Auto/Manual > switch but then I > never used them. > > At 05:13 PM 1/26/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >The Mamiya > >>M42 mount cameras had a open aperture metering system which not only was > >>different than that adopted by Pentax but could cause damage to the exterior > >>of a Pentax camera if they were mounted. > > > >The above statement applies only to those Mamiya lenses that were > >'redisgned' for the DSX and MSX series. The lenses originally sold with > >the 500DTL and 1000DTL were simply single pin stop-down metering lenses. > >There was no problem with those. The 500DTL/1000DTL and their > >predecessors, the 500TL and the 1000TL were capable of stop=down metering only. > > > >>Also I believe that the Mamiya lenses lacked > >>an auto manual switch which would make their use with a K-M42 adapter > >>good only > >>at maximum aperture unless you wish to preform some custom surgery on the > >>lens. > >>(I could be mistaken about that last point as I haven't looked at any of > >>these > >>lenses or cameras in a while). > > > >You are mistaken. The Mamiya/Sekor lenses as referred to above did have > >the auto/manual switch. > > > >Regards, > >Ed Matthew > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. > Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx
