> > On 18 May 2018, at 00:06, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Incidentally if anyone knows someone looking for a cute little English > cottage on the edge of the Cotswolds, here is the link: > > <http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54453681.html> > Very nice - good luck with shifting it.
> I need to go through the Annual again with a bottle of wine and really look > at the pictures properly. > > Stunned. And also a little sad that some of our best snappers aren't in due > to lack of Pentax gear. Maybe worth pressing an old Pentax lens into service > on those Leicas and Fujis eh? If Chris Mitchell can figure it out..... ;-) > I have my Pentax MX and a 24-35mm lens, but the cost of one roll of film to buy, develop, scan and contact-print is £30-. To get 3 photos worth submitting would take at least ten rolls. Then I'd need to resuscitate a filing system for negs and contacts (all my old ones are in the loft). So I'm not going back to film. For the cost of that perhaps I could buy an adapter to put the lens on my Leica M typ 262, but it wouldn't bring up the frames lines, or work the rangefinder mechanism, so framing would require an accessory viewfinder (which in fact I have for 28mm and 35mm) and I'd have to use scale focussing, so a bit haphazard. Then there's the question of whether a Pentax film-era lens and a Leica sensor could produce images of any technical quality worth showing... I don't have an interchangeable-lens Fuji, so that's out. Maybe an adapter for my Olympus E-3. The lens would become a 48-70. How would that be on the sensor? I remember my stunning Zeiss lenses turned to shit when I used them with a 4/3rds adapter. And there are reports of lens getting stuck. Plus, stop-down metering. Why would I bother, really? So, sorry mate. Ain't gonna happen. B -- 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.
