I would venture a guess that you get a good bit of pleasure out of adapting some of those beautiful enlarging lenses to M42, mounting them on an M42 bellows, adapting that to K to fit on a nice KX and taking beautiful images to help sell the whole rig on eekBay. This is pretty much the same thing, I just enjoy _doing_ it and then seeing the results. It makes the journey itself as fun for me as the arrival.
(Plus I've yet to see a Nikon with the lovely viewfinder of an MX.) ;-) Don > -----Original Message----- > From: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Nikon lens on M42 body??????? > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
