Which is true primarily because of Canon shooters looking for good, inexpensive primes (And to a greatly lesser extent the same among Pentax, Olympus/Panasonic and Sony shooters). M42 costs are still a fraction of the cost of similar Canon lenses and the M42 lenses are often a fair bit better than some of said Canon lenses (or in the case of 50's, faster AND better).
There's a much smaller market for an M42 DSLR than there is for M42 lenses _because_ those lenses are easily adapted to so many mounts with a fairly small loss in functionality. The primary market for Manual Focus lenses in mounts other than K and F are Canon shooters. And there's enough of them to seriously drive up prices of desirable lenses (Go price a MC Rokkor 58mm f1.2 or a Zeiss 21mm f2.8 Distagon vs what they were 3 years ago). And M42 is one of the two mounts almost every Alt-lens shooter on Canon starts with (the other being F mount). -Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:49 PM, JC OConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, the M42 market prices would have fallen way off by now > if the market for them was so small, they havent surprisingly. > It's weird because you would think that most film users > would have abandoned them ( I have ), but the prices still are > holding up on them (at least the good ones). They are going > for more now then they were 5-10 years ago when market was mostly > still film slrs in use. > > JC O'Connell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:17 PM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? > > > No, the supply of old M42 lenses is huge. The market for them is small. > > If the market was so huge someone would have made a M42 DSLR by now. > > And given the rise of the Yen, shrinking DSLR sale profits & general > global economic difficulties, we're not going to see one anytime soon if > at all. > > DS > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > JC OConnell > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2008 9:03 AM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? > > M42 lens market is huge, not tiny! > > JC O'Connell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Celio > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:15 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? > > > The closest you will ever get to an M42 dSLR is a K2000/Km with an m42 > adaptor. > > There is zero chance that any manufacturer would make a low-profit > camera to use no-profit used lenses that have been around for decades, > and which probably won't work well with a digital sensor anyway. There > is such a tiny market for this that I can't see any reputable > manufacturer trying to fill it. > > John > > > > -- > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
