> ... they look silly ... I spend my time looking through a camera, not at it.
> ... Pentax K to micro-FourThirds adapter costs $270 ... That's a Novoflex adapter, probably the most expensive vendor out there, and totally unneeded unless you are adapting DA series lenses to micro-FourThirds. A 'dumb' FourThirds to micro-FourThirds adapter (no electronics) is $80, add a Pentax K or M42 to FourThirds adapter for another $12 to $30. That's what I use for my M50/1.4 and SMC-T 135/3.5 lenses. > The question for me is why? > Are there not many other lenses available for this body? There are currently eight micro-FourThirds lenses (and three known to be on the roadmap for late 2009/early 2010) as follows: Micro-FourThirds Lens List At The Present Time (Sept 09) Panasonic, current: G Vario 7-14 G Vario 14-45 OIS G Vario 14-140 (150?) HD OIS G 20 G Vario 45-200 OIS Macro-Elmarit-GD 45 OIS Panasonic, upcoming on the roadmap: G 8 Fish Eye G 14 G Vario 100-300 OIS Olympus, current: M.Zuiko 17 M.Zuiko 14-42 In addition to that, using the FourThirds to micro-FourThirds adapters, you can use all of the Panasonic/Leica, Olympus and Sigma lenses made for FourThirds SLRs (about 30 more lenses in total, from consumer to super-high-end pro). But people have a lenses already that they want to put to use. Many people seem to have Pentax 110 kits with a defunct body and would like to use their lens collection on something that can support digital capture. It's fun, that's all. $135 for an adapter? that's not bad to get some use out of lenses that you have lying in a drawer and would otherwise just go into the trash bin. I don't understand the attitudes on this PENTAX forum. Here is a way that someone can have a little fun with some neat old Pentax stuff, and all I read is "oh those lenses suck anyway" and "why do it?" Oh well, so much for Pentax joy and fun. I guess you'd all rather be arguing about noise and build quality problems in your K7 and lenses, celebrating the Pink version of a KX-M, or otherwise pissin' & moanin' about aperture simulators. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
