Listen all,
As some of you will know by now I have a considerable investment in M42
lenses, both Takumars and aftermarket types. Many of these lenses are
really excellent and fully as good as my Nikkors so I have absolutely no
desire to get rid of them. But the M42 bodies are getting a bit long in the
tooth now. My only surviving Spotmatic F is still OK and so is my S1a but I
have been using the M42 lenses with the screw to bayonet adaptor on both the
MX and the Program-A.
A while ago there were several posts on this group about the viewfinder of
the MZ-M to the effect that somehow it was not all that good. From what I
can recall, nothing much was said about what the defects actually were. I
have had a look at an MZ-M with the view to getting one as a replacement for
my Spotmatic-F (in case it should pack up). This means of course that I
will use the screw adaptor on the MZ-M a small price to pay for the lens
quality which I already have. But what is the actual problem with the MZ-M
viewfinder? I had a look through one recently and I could not see anything
special, but then in actual use maybe somethings turn up which make it
unsatisfactory in use. I do wish that the MZ-M was not battery-everything
powered. This is the main reason why I have never gone over seriously to
autofocus. But there appear to be no serious replacements for the M42
cameras to-day. I already have a Praktica MTL50 and it seems fine but of
course it's not a Pentax.
Conrad F. Samuels
Kirstenhof SA
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