On Jan 1, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Scott Loveless wrote:
It just occurred to me a couple weeks ago to put a screw mount lens on my *ist film body. Can anyone else say "aperture priority"? Feel free to point at me and laugh. I suddenly feel a multiple M42 lens enablement coming on.
Can't say as I'd feel the same at all. Not having an auto-diaphragm mechanism is a pain in the butt, I'd rather use an M/K-mount lens and guess at metering if pressing the green button or AE-Lock button is too much of a bother than have to remember to stop down for every metering and exposure.
Personally, I started with the DS and have little desire/need to be bothered with ancient history like screwmount lenses. The A series lenses work well, and I've been replacing them for the FA/DA series equivalents. The modern lenses are even better performers, in my opinion, based on looking at the results I'm getting. I have one M lens that I still use (the M85/2) and it is a fine performer on the DS, but I think I'll be selling it to help offset an FA77/1.8 cost at the earliest opportunity.
Yes, I have an MX too. The FA lenses work great on it, and I will have no problems using them if I ever decide to take a picture with it. The only DA lens I have is for the DS exclusively as I can't imagine needing a 14mm lens on a 24x36mm format camera.
The sad part, and this was mentioned very recently in another thread, is that the crippled mount limits the use of non-A K-mount lenses while the old screw mounts work just fine. What the hell were they thinking?
Are you really intending to start this whole load of horsepucky up yet again? After the last "discussion" of this sort (1,876 messages by one individual, to be precise) I would think there'd been enough words bandied about to last us to 2010.
Godfrey
