Hello. Be greeted from Israel :).
> I have been using Pentax body and lens from 1986 - Have about 5000 35-mm > slides -- but still consider myself within the realm of "amateur". My pix > are mostly photo-journalistic, editorial, nature and travel. I wrote a few > articles to go with my pix which were published. Wow! Advanced amateur is the least I can think of :). > My equipment consists of Pentax Spotmatic F body and four SMC Takumar screw > mount lens: 1.4/50mm, 1.8/85mm, 4/100mm Macro, 4/200mm. I also use a Vivitar > 2.8/24mm lens. My recent addition is a Belarus-made MC Pelang > 3.5/8mm fisheye circular lens! I mostly use Fujichrome Provia and sometimes > Velvia. It is PelEng :). I am telling you, because it my mother's tongue (Russian that is :) ). Fine outfit you have, fine outfit... > I am wondering if there are people around who still use this kind of gear -- > screw mounts, fixed focals...and as old a body as "Spotmatic F". However, I > love my lens because of their excellent optical quality (particularly the > 100mm macro and the 85mm which I use as a portrait lens!) Of course there are such people. I recently went digital, but I still prefer primes to zooms. My FA 50/1.7 is almost always mounted on my *istD... > Also wondering if these old Pentax screw mount lens can be used with any of > the new Pentax digital camera bodies that are coming out. If any one has > experience in so using, kindly advise. Of course they can. It is just that you will have to close aperture manually, and you will loose automatic (jumping) aperture. And probably you will have to put camera to Manual mode, which should be familiar to you anyway. > Hoping to actively take part, learn and contribute to the list. Hoping to learn from you :). Boris
