This is really incredible, to suggest there are only a few hundred M42 lenses (other than 50/55mm) in the hands of a dozen people is so out of this world wrong it's really absurd. M42 was the so called "universal" mount adopted by many many MFGRS and were produced in mass numbers. Due to the build quality standards of the day, most of them still exist and they are actually owned by people (believe it or not). There were as many or more choices (focal lengths) in really good prime lenses in the M42 era then there are today because zooms were not good enough back then to even come close the the primes of that era. So I would say this reply post below is total hogwash!
JCO -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:22 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cory Papenfuss" Subject: RE: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ > > IIRC, there aren't many of the millions of M42 lenses out there that > have open-aperture auto aperture. Most are auto/manual stop-down > metering. Yawn.... Most of them are 55mm 1.8 lenses which don't really count towards the millions you guys are batting around. You are probably talking about a few hundred lenses in the hands of a few dozen potential users. Godfrey has it right, some topics are too stupid to discuss. This is one of them. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
