There's been a lot of "cross culture" stuff going on lately due to people moving from one "old school" brand (i.e. Leica or Contax) to the "new" stuff (i.e. Canon).
The Pentax stuff, imho, falls in between "old" and "new". I know a few people that are buying up some good quality m42 Pentax glass so that they can use it on their 20D's or their 1D MKII's. As a Canon DSLR owner myself, I was hoping that someone out there made a K-mount-to-EOS adapter but apparently the K-mount is too difficult to drop into the EOS frame. I remember reading something about the rear elements going too deep into the EOS bodies or something like that. I'm sure that more and more folks holding "varied" glass will be moving - especially now with Leica in financial difficulty (and therefore, my guess, unlikely to produce a digital-M Rangefinder) and with Contax going "bye bye" - I figure they'll either land in Pentax Land or in Canon Ville. These, of course, are just my own meandering thoughts and I've got no proof or stats to back any of that stuff up :) Cheers Dave Original Message: ----------------- From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:09:11 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: Pentax on the Leica List Just read an interesting exchange on one of the Leica lists. First, it should be noted that a lot of the Leica users there are moving to digital, and the general choice of DSLR is Canon because it can be used with Leica glass. This morning, however, someone posted a pic made with the Pentax istDs which generated a little conversation. It seems that a few people on the list have Pentax glass, and have indicated they might like to try the Pentax DSLR as well. The pic: http://www.sonc.com/pentax.htm The comment: I was pretty impressed with it, and since I have some M42 Pentax and Roosky glass as well as a Pentax Pancake 40, I might just go that route. That was at 1600 ISO, btw. Shel -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
