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From: "P. J. Alling"
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
Enough K and M42 to EOS adapters are sold to dispute that. It's worth
someones while to make them. _Cotty_you're_not_alone!_ (Wait a minute is
that a good thing?)
Having the ability to do something is quite different from actually doing
it. I sold a Nikkor 50/1.4 to a friend who uses Canon DSLR. He has the
Nikon-EOS adaptor and wanted a fast 50mm lens for star trails.
Thats all he uses the rig for, and he might go out once every few months and
do a couple of pictures using that set up.
Most of the lenses being adapted to other brands are being used for special
purposes and are not in day to day use.
I still have a whack of K and M lenses, some are quite desirable. Few of
them have been used for close to 2 years, and several, I have not used for
close to a decade now.
I can mount a K mount bellows onto my istD. Actually did it, and took some
pictures too.
Once.
Just a rough guess, I don't think I have shot more than a dozen exposures
(out of some 9000 now) on my digital with non A series or later lenses.
That makes a number so low that it may as well be zero.
There's the fantasy land some live in, where all things are possible, and
all things are done, then there is the real world most of us live in where
some things are possible, and few things are done.
William Robb
