Hey, good idea. I used to have a slide copier made by Honeywell that used a Pentax screw mount bellows and that is what we used for slide duping. I had forgotten about those type adapters.
Walt On 2/6/08, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dude, use the "mount adapter K" on the body end and get a M39 to M42 > adapter for the lens end. Then you can use superb but dirt cheap > high end 39mm mount enlarging lenses as the taking lenses. Schneider, > Rodenstock, > El-Nikkor, etc. get at least 100mm focal length or you may not be able > to get infinity focus if you need that. I use 80, 105, 135, and 180mm > enlarging lenses for macro. One thing you need to be sure of is that > the enlarging lenses you get have many iris blades (8 or even more) because > the > bokeh will really suck with anything less. Seems like the older enl. lenses > tend to have more blades and give the best bokeh. Sharpness is fantastic > at macro ranges. I had to make a custom mount for the 180 using a M42 > T mount ring if I recall correctly. In that case I dont use the M39 to M42 > ring. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:16 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax Bellows > > > Walter Hamler wrote: > > I just bought a Pentax Bellows from an internet telescope source. The > > pic tells that it is a screw mount version. Are there special adapters > > available to convert these to K-mount, or do I just get the M-42 - K > > adapter ring for both ends? > > Get a standard M42-K adapter to mount the bellows on the camera. Then get an > M42 *reversing ring* to mount lenses on the bellows :) > > I did this recently with a cheap third-party M42 bellows. Works great: > http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=16 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
