To rephrase that, I might be willing to use a M42 on a PK or EOS body manually once in a while with an occasional Fisheye, 15mm, or 1000mm or something, but for everyday use, NO WAY. Manual aperture mode of working is just unacceptably slow and annoying and error prone (composing with the aperture closed).
JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC OConnell Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:25 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? I cant disagree any more strongly, the M42s SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER without auto aperture, they are so annoying with the totally manual aperture you get on a adapter that I would be willing to buy a M42 DSLR so I could USE them again. The loss of auto aperture is NOT a "fairly small loss in functionality", it a FATAL loss IMHO. JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:03 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: ANY M42 DSLR rumors (yet)? 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. -- 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.
