none of those other makes are anywhere near as abundant as M42 lenses are and none of those other makes are autoapeture supported via M42 adapter rings on DSLRs either, its not a correct or logical argument you are making because of the GLARING loss of the m42 autoapeture function those other things you suggest entail. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:40 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ William Robb wrote: > ----- 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 > And most of those users wouldn't want a M42 DSLR because it wouldn't mount their other MF glass. Same people are using R, C/Y, OM and Nikkor glass on those bodies, apart from the subset using K mount bodies. -Adam -- 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
