Say goodbye to infinity focus. The reason that FD stuff is cheap is that the register on FD is short (~42mm) and it won't reach infinity focus without optics on any DSLR mount other than 4/3rds.
Ditto for Konica AR and Minolta MD mounts (Man, I'd love a Hexanon AR 57/1.2 on a 1.5x crop DSLR, if it was possible). -Adam Collin R Brendemuehl wrote: > I'm about to propose a heresy. > Nothing that G K Chesterton or Cornelius Plantinga would write about, > but heresy never the less. > > It's come to my attention that a lot of old FD mount lenses are going > pretty cheap. And the breech system attached to the > outside of the body, not really internal .... soo > Remove the mount from an old Canon body and fuse it to a screw-mount > adapter and voila -- a Canon-> Pentax adapter. > Then just remove the aperture coupling from the lens. > > Next time I find an old FD body and lens that's worthless, I may give > it a try. (I just saw an old Canon 300/4.5 going > for a modest price and this idea entered my mind ...) > > Yes, it is heresy. But can I be cleansed? Somebody help me ... I've fallen. > (Or is this a heresy/project better suited to Cotty?) > > > > > Sincerely, > > Collin Brendemuehl > http://www.brendemuehl.net > http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com > http://philosophyforchristians.blogspot.com > > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" > -- Jim Elliott > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
