On Dec 31, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Don Sanderson wrote:
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.) ;-)
Best viewfinder on any SLR for me was a Nikon F3/T with hp finder and type E screen. Period. An absolutely perfect match to my eyesight. The Pentax *ist DS is very close to that, but doesn't have the 100% coverage field of view.
Second best is a Leica R8/9, but I could never afford the lenses I'd want for that bugger, nor the digital back.
Godfrey
