Well you've set yourself an enduring hobby. Any m42 lens and the earlier m37 and c, (video, 8mm(?)), mount), Bessamatic or Kodak Retina IIIS/Reflex with the proper adapter, I think there may even be a Leica S (m39) mount to m42 adapter which opens all of the Leica, and copies such as Canon, (ah think of using a canon f 0.95 50mm), RF lenses, not to forget Pentax 645 and 67 lenses. Then there's the TX T4 Adapall etc. These are just the adapters I know of. The scope is daunting and the number of different lenses is astounding.
Andreas Pfotenhauer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > as mentioned in the subject, i need your help :-) > > I'm in the process of building a website that will hold a database with > all lenses usable on Pentax bodies (with preference for the digital > ones). I know, there is Bojidar Dimitrov's excellent k-mount web page > (and some others), but thats not what i have in mind, because "kmp" has > a pure technical perspective and it is restricted to Pentax lenses, > while i would like to cover *all* lens producers that are usable on a > Pentax body, and my project will offer more participation for users, it > will be possible to rate lenses, add comments, there will be a list of > external resources (URLs) pointing to lens reviews users can add to, etc > .. somewhat like a Wiki but mostly with structured data (so for example > one can easily filter for "ultra wide lenses that offer automatic > aperture, have a availability rating greater than 3 and a overall > quality rating greater or equal 4") and a set of permissions with what > a particular type of user(anonymous, registered user,staff,admin) can do > or not. i think you get a rough idea. > > Problem is, this is some amount of data i have to collect and to > maintain, thats why the whole thing is database driven which in turn > means, no html skills will be necessary to add and maintain data, and > I'm optimistic that I'll find sooner or later someone who's interested > in helping me. > > Second Problem is, i don't know 99% of these lenses, and thats why i > come to you guys. Getting functional characteristics of a lens (weight, > size, focal length, aperture etc) is in most cases no big problem, > thanks to google, but what i would like to have are descriptions of the > lens, preferably from someone who had it in his hands and did some > shots. Pictures of lenses are also very welcome. Of course contributions > will be attributed and pictures will have a explicit copyright notice, > with a link to the homepage of the contributor or something similar, > except the contributor does not want to be mentioned. > > Website itself is still in alpha stage, so there is no layout and only > some sample data, I'm still adding/removing/changing features, but as > soon as i enter early beta I'll show you something :-) > > with kind regards from Germany, > Andreas > > PS: maybe i should mention that this will *not* be a commercial thing, > actually i intend to place the whole thing under a Creative Commons 3 > Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License (horrible name ^^), except > of course for picture contributors that wish to retain their copyrights. > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
