bother with the lenses however, unless I had the camera to mount them on. The Mamiya
M42 mount cameras had a open aperture metering system which not only was
different than that adopted by Pentax but could cause damage to the exterior
of a Pentax camera if they were mounted. I think you'll find the same problem on
a ZX-L only to a greater extent. Also I believe that the Mamiya lenses lacked
an auto manual switch which would make their use with a K-M42 adapter good only
at maximum aperture unless you wish to preform some custom surgery on the lens.
(I could be mistaken about that last point as I haven't looked at any of these
lenses or cameras in a while).
At 07:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Hello. I am given an opportunity to acquire not working body Mamiya 500 DTL and two lenses 50/2 and 135/3.5. Since both lenses are M42 they could be potentially used with my ZX-L. I've been wondering how good are these lenses and in particular how good is 135/3.5 compared with Takumar (non SMC) 135/2.5?The body could be tried to be repaired though. I have no idea as to how good is this body, say with respect to similar Pentax bodies. Is it worth the trouble trying to repare? Thanks in advance. --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
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