I saw an Alpa body, that took M42 mount lenses, at a swap meet a few years ago. It looked like the Chinon Mematron. I owned a Mematron body because it allow AE with pre-SMC Super Takumar lenses. The camera came out, I believe, shortly after the ES Pentaxes were introduced. The AE on the Chinon wasn't very good.
Jim A. > From: Michel Carr�re-G�e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:46:20 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Alpa / Pentax > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:43:55 -0400 > > Peter J. Alling a �crit : > >> Alpa had their own bayonet mount. Late in the Alpa company's life >> they bought a Chinon Mematron body, (I believe, but it could have been >> something >> else), with a more "Alpa like" Prism housing and re-badged it with the >> Alpa name. It used M42 mount lenses. The two other links were just >> Japanese manufacturers lenses in the Alpa bayonet mount. I knew that >> Chinon supplied them some lenses, I didn't know that Pentax, (Asahi), >> also >> produced for them as well. > > I questioned the salesman, this lens has a screw mount, not Alpa mount. > It's well the lens manufactured by Chinon. > Michel >
