I wasn't implying that there werent any nice desireable nikkor lenses, I was just stating I don't think its worth the effort to try to use them on Pentax K bodies when there are so many nice new and used SLR/DSLR nikon bodies to easily use them with....especially since Nikon didn't change the mount when they went AF so even the latest bodies can at least use the oldest nikkor lenses to the same extent as any pentax body w adapter would ever be able to and much easier... jco
-----Original Message----- From: Don Sanderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Nikon lens on M42 body??????? I have several rather nice Nikon lenses, that's why I bought the FM, to have something to use them on. Just for grins I just held a NIKKOR-P 105/2.5 in place on an ME Super body. Compared the relatively small/dim finder on the FM the view was amazing. Actually: T'was a beautiful thing! The modification would be relatively simple, and reversible. A K mount ring, a spacer and a few holes to match the ones in the lens. Hey, it's been a cold, dark, rainy winter. I'm getting cabin fever! ;-) Don > -----Original Message----- > From: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Nikon lens on M42 body??????? > > > Why would you ever want to use nikon glass on k bodies? there are > plenty of really nice nikon bodies both film and digital to even > entertain the thought....now using k (or screw) lenses on nikon > bodies, that would be nice ( but impossible) because there is nowhere > near as many nice pentax bodies to use especially digital to choose > from with your pentax glass....ala Cotty jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Sanderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Nikon lens on M42 body??????? > > > You're right, I just measured an FM at ~46.53 and an ME at ~45.5. > Silly me had assumed that the M42 to Nikon adapter allowed infinity > focus with M42 lenses. It only focuses out to about 8 feet! ;-( I've > had the adapter for over a year and just now realised it doesn't work. > This DOES however make adapting Nikon lenses to K bodies a > possibility. With a little "Cottying", of course. ;-) > > Anyone know the register on Canon and Minolta bodies??? <vvbg> > > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:29 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Nikon lens on M42 body??????? > > > > > > Register for the Nikon mount is IIRC 1mm longer than M42 (46.5mm vs > > 45.5mm), but there's no way this adaptor maintains infinity focus, > > it's way too thick. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > Don Sanderson wrote: > > > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7575287348 > > > > > >Anyone see how this could possibly focus to infinity on an M42 > > >body? Seems to me the register distance is already 'shorter' on > > >Nikon lenses. My Nikon body to M42 lens adapter spaces the lens > > >about 3-4mm farther out from the body, it seems the one above would > > >act as an extension tube as well as an adapter. I'll probably buy > > >one anyway 'cause of the 'wierdness factor' but I don't see how it > > >could actually work. ;-) > > > > > >Don > > > > > > > > >
