Well, you're welcome to think it's a fatal loss, but there's plenty of people off happily working with that loss without a fuss. Including myself (Although not with M42 lenses at the moment as I don't currently have any. CZ, F and Mamiya M645 lenses only right now)
-Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:24 PM, JC OConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant disagree any more strongly, the M42s SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER > without auto aperture, they are so annoying with the totally manual > aperture you get on a adapter that I would be willing to buy a > M42 DSLR so I could USE them again. The loss of auto aperture is > NOT a "fairly small loss in functionality", it a FATAL loss IMHO. > > JC O'Connell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:03 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? > > > Which is true primarily because of Canon shooters looking for good, > inexpensive primes (And to a greatly lesser extent the same among > Pentax, Olympus/Panasonic and Sony shooters). M42 costs are still a > fraction of the cost of similar Canon lenses and the M42 lenses are > often a fair bit better than some of said Canon lenses (or in the case > of 50's, faster AND better). > > There's a much smaller market for an M42 DSLR than there is for M42 > lenses _because_ those lenses are easily adapted to so many mounts with > a fairly small loss in functionality. > > The primary market for Manual Focus lenses in mounts other than K and F > are Canon shooters. And there's enough of them to seriously drive up > prices of desirable lenses (Go price a MC Rokkor 58mm f1.2 or a Zeiss > 21mm f2.8 Distagon vs what they were 3 years ago). And M42 is one of the > two mounts almost every Alt-lens shooter on Canon starts with (the other > being F mount). > > -Adam > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:49 PM, JC OConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nope, the M42 market prices would have fallen way off by now if the >> market for them was so small, they havent surprisingly. It's weird >> because you would think that most film users would have abandoned them > >> ( I have ), but the prices still are holding up on them (at least the >> good ones). They are going for more now then they were 5-10 years ago >> when market was mostly still film slrs in use. >> >> JC O'Connell >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of David Savage >> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:17 PM >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >> Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? >> >> >> No, the supply of old M42 lenses is huge. The market for them is >> small. >> >> If the market was so huge someone would have made a M42 DSLR by now. >> >> And given the rise of the Yen, shrinking DSLR sale profits & general >> global economic difficulties, we're not going to see one anytime soon >> if at all. >> >> DS >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of JC OConnell >> Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2008 9:03 AM >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >> Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? >> >> M42 lens market is huge, not tiny! >> >> JC O'Connell >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of John Celio >> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:15 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? >> >> >> The closest you will ever get to an M42 dSLR is a K2000/Km with an m42 > >> adaptor. >> >> There is zero chance that any manufacturer would make a low-profit >> camera to use no-profit used lenses that have been around for decades, > >> and which probably won't work well with a digital sensor anyway. >> There is such a tiny market for this that I can't see any reputable >> manufacturer trying to fill it. >> >> John >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
