Hi Berk, Thanks a million for your reply! I shall try it as soon as I can! I had forgotten all about this, and I even read your whole message without realizing...
Hi Group, any other "vintage" Pentax users here? 2 months ago, I bought a great Pentax S2 (about 1960) and run about 3 B&W films through it. Great camera,...
Fast 35mm lenses for SLR are difficult to design... retrofocus... that means, they are either new, expensive, much glass, heavy, not sharp or contrasty, or all...
taunusreiter <odysseus2004@...> wrote: Hi Group, any other "vintage" Pentax users here? 2 months ago, I bought a great Pentax S2 (about 1960) and run...
Mike, Frank is also a member of Spotmatic group. Ray Allen. ... From: Michael Armstrong To: ClubM42@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:28 AM ...
Hello, Ray. I didn't realize that Frank is a member. Good for him. So, he already knows the features and benefits of the cameras and the group. Doesn't get any...
Thanks for the welcome. Yes the Spotmatic is a lively group. In particular the pdf's of old catalogs (pentax-manual.com) was a help with vintage lenses, and...
I have just managed to get a yashica tl elctroX tls refurbised and working. I haven't used the camera for some years. I noticed that the 50mm Yashinon f 1.4...
Disclaimer - not my lens, and I have never dealt with this seller. I have the Kiev-10 Automat camera, and just today got this same lens in the Automat mount -...
Philip, I'm pretty much in agreement with everything TT says about the Mir-20M. Mine came from Kiev Camera of Atlanta, new for $129. The carry case is...
(In reply) - I have mostly M42, and have nothing wider than the 24mm Vivitar, so my own lens rounds out the set for my Kiev-10 up to 135mm, and will also mount...
... than reply, but I also have a couple of oldie Pentax I use often. I have 2 HIII with meters, an H1a, an SV and three Spotmatics. Great cameras, only the...
Hi Frank, congratulations on your pages! Nevertheless, I beg to disagree!!! "The Canon is rated as elegant and compact in its class, comparable to LEICA...It's...
... I always like to dicsuss things like that :-) ... inspiration, > but I digress! If alone in terms of todays prices, I agree :-) it's always near to ...
Well Frank, sadly the MX was very shortlived and I believe that size has nothing to do with lack of reliability. The OM-1 is extremely reliable and its...
Well Frank, sadly the MX was very shortlived and I believe that size has nothing to do with lack of reliability. The OM-1 is extremely reliable and its...
Hi Paolo, since you stated earlier, you would love to get a Pentax-MX, I very much apreciate your comaprison MX/OM-1 in written form once if you have both :-) ...
In article <dae9ha+p5fj@eGroups.com>, odysseus2004@... ... The 35mm f2.0 SMC Takumar is an excellent lens. Not all that cheap, though. ... John Dallman,...
Hello, has anyone on the list done this? I know that to focus at infinity I would need one that has an optical element in it. Does this affect the picture...
Isaac, for AE you need Aperture Priority as on the Nikon EL-2, with stop down metering. Picture quality, with my optical adapter, is about the same as with a...
Does this mean that a Takumar's image look like a Nikkor? <vgb> Bob ... From: Bart Peeren To: ClubM42@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 6:53 PM ...
Hello, I have the russian Helios 35/2 and I find it quite good. It is a sharp lens, well built and distortion free. For the money, it is excellent! Paulo ...
... I don't know the answer but I was thinking the same thing once. I heard something that Nikons don't do so well with M42 lenses. Something about the mirror...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835860,00.asp "... Kodak is more than halfway through a three-year plan to streamline the company by cutting jobs and...
Isaac, Any aperture priority auto exposure camera can be used for stop down metering!!! Just make sure the lens has a "manual" switch so the aperture closes...
Ok, I thought that was the case but wasn't sure. Does this mean though that my automatic only lenses wouldn't be usable? ... From: ClubM42@yahoogroups.com...
Isaac, I presume you are talking M42 lenses. Most of the automatic M42's have a slide, button, whatever device to turn them into manual lenses. If you already...
The original post mentioned Nikon cameras. Most modern AF Nikon cameras (if not all) would allow an old manual focus lens or even an adapted one to mount....
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