Ed
From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Question about Mamiya 500 DTL and Lenses
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:06:30 +0000
Okay, enough speculation. I'm heading to my camera closet to dig out the
two Mamiya SLRs that are buried there. Let's see, the first is a 1000TL.
It's a camera I used for about years, in the late seventies,shooting at
least 5000 rolls with it. I probably made more money with that camera
than any other I've ever owned, although I was trying harder. But I
digress, back to the camera. It has a mechanism for stopping down the
lens that appears to be identical to that of the Spotmatic-- i.e. a
paddle device at the bottom of the box that pushes a pin on the lens.
The 1000 DTL appears to be identical, except for the switch that changes
the meter from averaging to spot. The lens is an Auto Mamiya-Sekor
55/1.8. It has an auto/manual switch, and it is nearly identical to a
Super Takumar 55/1.8, albeit a bit larger. I can mount the lens on a
Spotmatic, and -- it works. I bought the DTL in 1990 or thereabouts,
thinking it would be fun to own another of these. It lasted about a week
before the mirror started sticking, but it's otherwise pretty close to mint.
Paul Stenquist
Peter Alling wrote:
>
> his camera. It always p***** me off that he
> Actually a friend of mine had a Mamiya 500DTL and the open aperture
> metering system was present on could borrow my Takumar's but
> I couldn't use any of
> his lenses. It may have been that his camera was subject to some kind of
> Frankenstein repair that
> melded a DTL and a DTX. I don't remember the lenses having an Auto/Manual
> switch but then I
> never used them.
>
> At 05:13 PM 1/26/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >The above statement applies only to those Mamiya lenses that were
> >'redisgned' for the DSX and MSX series. The lenses originally sold with
> >the 500DTL and 1000DTL were simply single pin stop-down metering lenses.
> >There was no problem with those. The 500DTL/1000DTL and their
> >predecessors, the 500TL and the 1000TL were capable of stop=down metering only.
> >
> >>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).
> >
> >You are mistaken. The Mamiya/Sekor lenses as referred to above did have
> >the auto/manual switch.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ed Matthew
> >
> >
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