Larry's suggestion is what I do already, to a large extent. On my digital bodies, until I bought two lenses designed for digital, I used film era lenses with no problem - even screw-mount examples! Now, I regularly use a film era 28-105 on digital - it makes a good walkabout lens when I don't need a wide angle, but do want moderate telephoto.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Wednesday, 18 October 2017 7:51 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: An new variation on the "silicon film" idea Mark Roberts wrote: > This device replaces the back of your old film camera and lets you > take 16-megapixel photos. > https://petapixel.com/2017/10/17/im-back-new-digital-back-old-35mm-cam > eras/ > > It's currently on Kickstarter so there's no telling if it ever makes > it to market. That's a clever idea, but there are two problems, first it's not very clever, and second, as I often either point out or demonstrate, there can be a huge disparity between clever ideas and good ideas. IMNSHO there are really two appropriate solutions to the problem. Either shoot film while you can still get it processed, and then if you want get it scanned, or buy a digital body that lets you use your legacy glass. The options for this seem to be (as appropriate to your gear): High end Nikon that will meter off AIS, Pentax, Leica, or some EVIL body that allows you to get an adapter to use the lenses you want to play with. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
