----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: The JCO survey
> Yes and most people don't like using screw lenses on K film bodies > For that very reason, you end up with PURE manual aperture mode > Which sucks. That's why nearly everyone uses film M42 bodies > With M42 lenses to shoot film, not K bodies to shoot film because > The lack of auto aperture really sucks on K bodies with M42 lenses. Irrelevant to the discussion. The point is, people can use M42 bodies on any K mount camera, inclding DSLR. Whether it is convenient or not in't particularly germaine. Your rational with Canon, if carried over to Pentax would be that M42 lenses would not be usable at all on K mount bodies. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
