I believe you CAN do the same aperture priority (stopped down of course on BOTH canon and pentax - yukky). on Pentax DSLRs as you can the Canon with adapters.
Your crazy on the TTL flash and superfast winders, those are unimportant frills compared to ability to use your M42 lenses with automatic aperture function. I would never trade off automatic aperture function of M42 lenses just for TTL flash and/or superfast winders. So in my honest, and long time M42 user opinion the the CANONs are LESS functional than film M42 SLRS, not more functional on the functions that really matter and greatly affect user friendlyness, e.g. automatic aperture. This is why I would love to see a M42 DSLR, preferably FF too, as these could be excellent usable cameras, and stop down would only be needed for metering, not shooting. Shooting could still be full automatic aperture with any auto aperture M42 lens, and there are TONS of them out there. jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens Actually, since the Canon's do continuous metering in Manual and Aperture Priority along with TTL flash (including wireless multi-group flash) they're more functional than Pentax DSLR's with M42 lenses (which offer metering only via the green button hack or DoF preview and no TTL flash with non-A lenses). In fact they're also more functional than any M42 slr, courtesy of offering TTL flash and fast motor drives, things that never existed on M42 SLR's (winders yes, 5+fps, no). -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > it should be noted these adapaters will NOT > make the canon EOS into M42 DSLRS I was talking > about because they dont support the auto aperture > M42 lenses auto aperture function. Its very slow > and cumbersome to use them manually. There is > no need to even use Canon for them, you can do > the same thing ( manual apeture only ) with > a Pentax DSLR and the mount adapter K ring. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Adam Maas > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:23 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens > > > Yes. They're all over eBay. Mine cost be about $25CDN after shipping > > Commonly available adaptors for EOS mount are: OM, M42, Nikon F, > Contax/Yashica and Leica R. The last two often have mirror clearance > issues though and the C/Y adaptors sometimes don't get to infinity. Some > > people outdo Cotty and actually modify the mirror on the 5D, or grind > the lens for clearance (This is typically done on lenses like the Leica > 19/2.8 Elmarit-R, a rather pricey lens) > > Plain adaptors are typically $10-30US plus shipping off eBay, focus > confirmation adaptors with the extra circuit necessary to get focus > confirmation from EOS bodies are around $90US. > > K mount adaptor are also available, but require physical lens mods > unless you have an EF-S compatible body (20D, 30D, all Digital Rebels). > > Needless to say, the K and F mount adaptors only work with lenses > equipped with an aperture ring. > > -Adam > Who has the M42 and Leica R adaptors and will be buying a Nikon F > adaptor shortly. > > > David J Brooks wrote: >> Is the adaptor readlily available out there. >> >> Dave >> >> On 2/13/07, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The Canon 5D with the addition of a $10 adaptor is for all intents >>> and purposes a M42 DSLR. All it's missing is the metering stop-down >>> button. >>> >>> -Adam >>> Who shoots M42 on Canon EOS with his ST's >>> >>> >>> J. C. O'Connell wrote: >>>> Sorry I cant help you out on that one, ( Just got >>>> my own personal K28/2 sample a few months ago). I have a similar >>>> goal, I am now collecting the entire "K" series lenses to go along >>>> with my entire SMCT lens series. A few Ms and As too, but not >>>> collecting those series. I bet collecting the entire "A" series >>>> would be a real challange though. >>>> >>>> Speaking of the SMCTs, if somebody ever makes a hi-rez M42 FF DSLR, >>>> I will be in hog heaven. So far I am seeing really good results with > >>>> the few I tried >>>> so far casually on the istDS. >>>> >>>> jco >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>>> Behalf > >>>> Of Jim King >>>> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:32 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: WTB: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens >>>> >>>> >>>> As many of you know, I'm a collector as well as a user of Pentax >>>> lenses. I need a copy of this lens to help me reach my goal of >>>> owning all of the Pentax K-mount 28mm lenses. If anyone here has a >>>> copy which they would be willing to sell me I'd be very grateful. >>>> Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - thanks! >>>> >>>> Regards, Jim >>>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
