NO, they are NOT easily usable. All the so-called adapter solutions do not support auto aperture so you end up with a very very very un-user friedly "open to focus, close to shoot" manual aperture, which SUCKS the big. Nothing at all like these lenses were intended to be used.
JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? I think you're grossly overestimating the demand for such a camera when all of those lenses are easily usable with a cheap ($10-20) adaptor on essentially all non-Nikon DSLR's. Especially since use of those lenses with an adaptor, particularly on Canon and 4/3rds DSLR's means you can also use lenses from other mounts, many of which have no equivalent in M42 mount, particularly fast OM, Contax and Leica lenses. -Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:09 PM, JC OConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you are grossly underestimating the quantity of > M42 lenses still in existance. They were sold in massive quantities in > the 60's and 70's and were generally well made and simple. Hint: > theyre still out there and alive and well. The pentax M42s in > particular are of very high quality too. > > JC O'Connell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of John Francis > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:02 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? > > > > And, I'm sure, for a significantly cheaper price than a camera that > will only appeal to a tiny fraction of the market for a regular DSLR. > > Less may or may not be more, but it's certainly going to cost more. > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:51:17PM -0500, PN Stenquist wrote: >> But you can do that with a current DSLR. Just put it in manual focus >> and manual exposure modes and turn off the review. I sometimes work >> that > way. >> >> I cut my photographic teeth 35 years ago with all manual equipment. >> Im not particular nostalgic about those times, and I don't gush about >> old > >> manual equipment. But I do enjoy working that way once in a while. No > >> special camera needed. It's all there in any of the Pentax DSLRs. >> Paul On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:21 PM, drew wrote: >> >>> Scott Loveless wrote: >>>> On 11/19/08, drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Shame really, I would love a simple match needle or LED DSLR... no >>>>> screen, no "modes", just the basics. Set your film speed, W/B, >>>>> aperture and shutter >>>>> speed. Personally I wouldn't want a built in flash, I never had a >>>>> problem >>>>> using an accessory flash with the little look up chart on the back >>>>> ;-) >>>> Retro-digital? >>> >>> Yup, a Zenit 12XP or Spotmatic with a digital sensor instead of >>> film....no chimping, no fiddling around with menus to find some >>> obscure setting that in reality makes no difference to the end > result, >>> no modes to shoot pictures of protons colliding in a particle >>> accelerator, no frown and facial recognition, nothing... just the > skill >>> of the user to make a picture... :-) >>> >>> Drew. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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. -- 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.
