Re: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
Lorin, I ahave a really nice 300mm f6.3 Teletakumar screwmount lens for sale (with case caps & original box) that would fit your needs. Contact me if interested. It needs a new home. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic > Lorin > There are quite a few screw mount telephotolenses (M42) at ebay these days. > The brilliant bird photographs in the add was made with this 400mm on a > Canon D30: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4687&item=3822995923&; > rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW > IMHO it's a beautiful lens (Takumar like design). > > It has a buy-it-now price of 150 USD - but it has been listed three times > (at least) without any bids - so you'll most likely get it if you bid 99.99 > USD! > > If I had a Spotmatic I would hav bought it a week ago. > Cheers > > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 26. juni 2004 05:03 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic > > > Do you really mean long focus or will a telephoto type lens be > sufficient? > Long focus M42 lenses are rare in that length. > jco > > -Original Message- > From: Lorin Mackey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic > > > Gentlemen, >I'm looking for a 200 or 300mm long focus lens for my Spotmatic SP. > Is there any other designation for the coupling other than > "screw-thread" ? Thank you Lorin
Re: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
M42, Practika, and Pentax are the most common names for the mount. However many different camera manuafacturers used it. Lorin Mackey wrote: Gentlemen, I'm looking for a 200 or 300mm long focus lens for my Spotmatic SP. Is there any other designation for the coupling other than "screw-thread" ? Thank you Lorin -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
Re: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
Lorin, The screw mount for Spotmatic cameras is commonly known as "M42", "Pentax screw" and "universal screw". M42 refers to its diameter, 42mm. There are many excellent lenses with dedicated M42 mounts, and you can also get M42 adapters for other lens mounts; such as YS and T variants, and even some medium format lenses (e.g. Pentacon 6). I'm pretty sure you can also get an M42 adapter for Tamron's Adaptall mount, but possibly not for Adaptall II. here are some good sites to visit for more info: http://medfmt.8k.com/third/mounts.html http://medfmt.8k.com/bronmounts.html http://www.aohc.it/tak00e.htm http://www.gate.net/%7Ehifisapi/lens1.htm I'm not sure what you mean by "long focus". I have personal experience with the following 200 & 300 mm lenses: 200/3 Vivitar Series 1 VMC [Komine] M42 200/4 Meyer Orestegor M42 300/4 Spiratone YS 300/5.6 Tamron SP Tele Macro (mod. 54B) Adaptall II The 200/3 Vivitar Series 1 and 300/5.6 Tamron SP are absolutely excellent. I like the 200/4 Meyer, but still haven't made up my mind about it. The 300/4 is fast, but not nearly as good as the SP. Jim www.jcolwell.ca
RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
Just to clarify, my comment was that LONG FOCUS lenses are rare, telephotos, which are different design (physically shorter than focal length) are very common Generally, long focus designs are usually better than teles especially with regard to geometric distortion JCO -Original Message- From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Lorin There are quite a few screw mount telephotolenses (M42) at ebay these days. The brilliant bird photographs in the add was made with this 400mm on a Canon D30: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4687&item=3822995 923& rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW IMHO it's a beautiful lens (Takumar like design). It has a buy-it-now price of 150 USD - but it has been listed three times (at least) without any bids - so you'll most likely get it if you bid 99.99 USD! If I had a Spotmatic I would hav bought it a week ago. Cheers Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 26. juni 2004 05:03 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Do you really mean long focus or will a telephoto type lens be sufficient? Long focus M42 lenses are rare in that length. jco -Original Message- From: Lorin Mackey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Gentlemen, I'm looking for a 200 or 300mm long focus lens for my Spotmatic SP. Is there any other designation for the coupling other than "screw-thread" ? Thank you Lorin
RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
Lorin There are quite a few screw mount telephotolenses (M42) at ebay these days. The brilliant bird photographs in the add was made with this 400mm on a Canon D30: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4687&item=3822995923&; rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW IMHO it's a beautiful lens (Takumar like design). It has a buy-it-now price of 150 USD - but it has been listed three times (at least) without any bids - so you'll most likely get it if you bid 99.99 USD! If I had a Spotmatic I would hav bought it a week ago. Cheers Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 26. juni 2004 05:03 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Do you really mean long focus or will a telephoto type lens be sufficient? Long focus M42 lenses are rare in that length. jco -Original Message- From: Lorin Mackey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Gentlemen, I'm looking for a 200 or 300mm long focus lens for my Spotmatic SP. Is there any other designation for the coupling other than "screw-thread" ? Thank you Lorin
RE: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic
Do you really mean long focus or will a telephoto type lens be sufficient? Long focus M42 lenses are rare in that length. jco -Original Message- From: Lorin Mackey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Long Focus Lens for Spotmatic Gentlemen, I'm looking for a 200 or 300mm long focus lens for my Spotmatic SP. Is there any other designation for the coupling other than "screw-thread" ? Thank you Lorin
