Hi all I have recently been expanding my M42 lens collection via E-bay and now have the following lenses: Tokina 24mm f2.8, Sirius 28mm f2.8 Macro, Optomax...
I am still looking for a sub 20mm lens and a fast 500mm or 600mm+. FWIW, the SMC Tak 500mm f4.5 is no slouch of a performer. It doesn't have the low dispersion...
... My 17/3.5 Soligor has a separation in the center of the rear group. It's not the only one I've seen like this, so if you run across one, check it out...
Well, Alf, you've just demonstrated the wonders of M42 equipment: its plentiful and inexpensive. Some may be "dogs" but by and large most are good quality. ...
There is no way any Pentacon lens comes even close to the Takumars in resolution and contrast. And certainly not in build quality. The quality control and...
I had one and used the 2,8/135 Pentacon before. If there was anything I could remember negative about it was its size and weight. Other than that, it was a...
Pentax-Ashai-Takumar does make great lenses! Saying that Ziess can not come "even close" runs against the facts of all the various assesments of the Ziess...
... I don't take this, really. Jena lenses are pretty good for what little you pay for them. My CZJ Pancolar 1,8/50 is virtually indistinguishable from Zeiss...
yup. Generally I find the build quality of the CZJ/Pentacon lenses not great... but optically they're very good. However, with some rework and modern grease...
Plastic barrel? See if it looks like a sigma 135/2.8 from the same era. I suspect yours is one of those that CZJ OEM'd to Sigma of japan. You are probably...
I think that debating the merits of Pentax vs. Praktica serves little purpose. To be using M42 at all in this day in age assumes at least one or more of the...
Started out good, ended up ranting... Man, don't do this. A lot of members of this group have a Zenit, or more, and are very happy with it. No auto-aperture??...
My first interchangeable lens camera was a Contax S that I purchased in 1959 at a pawn shop. Selling it was a big mistake. It was my "only" camera until I...
Let's not dismiss the Zenit that easily, shall we? It deserves some respect. For one, IT is the only M42 camera still being built, still available new, which...
I picked this up a week or two ago in a used-camera store for $5. It's a 135/2.8 with auto diaphragm, with an auto/manual ring just aft of the f/stop ring....
Well said and precisely spot-on. Nothing but the truth! ... being built, still available new, which is priced within reason.There is the Cosina M42 SLR too,...
Pat We might as well say, OLD + NEW ;D I have both the Contax D (whose 58/2, ca. 1952, is enjoying a second lease on life on my DSLR) and a Nikon F. For some...
... lenses..mostly E.german. I quite interested in your adapting the m42 lenses to DSLR ..The adapter u use on the FUJi does it have a correction glass like...
Nostalgia aside, lets not overlook one of the original reasons why this group exists ... the universality concept. I have a slew of "modern" lenses for my EOS...
I just acquired a 'Standard' PENTACON auto 2.8/135 MC for peanuts. But it looks not like the one you mentioned on ebay. Something bad i saw right now, is that...
Anybody know of some safe, time proven way to speed up the drying of film after it is taken out of final rinse? I am currently just hanging to dry in a air...
Hi JCO Some tricks call for the use of accelerants like alcohol in the final rinse, but this can cloud the acetate film base. Drying the film *horizontally*...
You can build a drying cabinet from a small hair dryer (preferably one with a flex hose going to a plastic cap) and a plastic clothes storage bag that zippers...
Starting trying to defend East Germany and Pentacon, I ended up offending some Zenit users! For this I humbly apologize, I was only trying to say that East ...
Currently only $69.99 bid: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3809921637 Although this ALPA bellows is M42 Pentax Screwmount, it can be used ...
... offending ... I have no problem with Pentacon lenses being from E.Germany. The Pentacon 50mm f1.8 is IMO an amazing lens. Its fast, sharp and has very...
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