William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- 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
I'm exactly the opposite. Out of the 400 or so exposures on my D since I
purchased it last week, 2/3rds are with K/M lenses (Mostly the 50/2M or
the 200/4 XR Rikenon). Of course the only non K/M lens I own is the
18-55 DA, and my usage patterns are odd (I switched to Pentax from Nikon
because some MF metering beats none hands-down)
-Adam
