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Pentax 42M screw mount lens to digital conversion



 
 
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Old December 31st 06, 09:10 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm,rec.photo.digital
m II
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Default Pentax 42M screw mount lens to digital conversion

This appears to be a nice way of getting aperture control on the old lenses

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/index.html?lenses.html

this DOES require some mechanical ability and patience.


mike
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Old December 31st 06, 10:12 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm,rec.photo.digital
Pete D
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Default Pentax 42M screw mount lens to digital conversion


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This appears to be a nice way of getting aperture control on the old
lenses

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/index.html?lenses.html

this DOES require some mechanical ability and patience.


mike


That tilt shift lens looks amazing.


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Old January 1st 07, 03:31 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm,rec.photo.digital
Tony Belding
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Default Pentax 42M screw mount lens to digital conversion

On 2006-12-31 14:10:02 -0600, m II said:

This appears to be a nice way of getting aperture control on the old lenses

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/index.html?lenses.html

this DOES require some mechanical ability and patience.


Huh? Very cool lenses on that page, I bookmarked it. . . But I don't
see the reference to the adaptor, or conversion, you're talking about?

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Tony Belding, Hamilton Texas

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Old January 1st 07, 10:55 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm,rec.photo.digital
m II
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Default Pentax 42M screw mount lens to digital conversion

Tony Belding wrote:
On 2006-12-31 14:10:02 -0600, m II said:

This appears to be a nice way of getting aperture control on the old
lenses

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/index.html?lenses.html

this DOES require some mechanical ability and patience.


Huh? Very cool lenses on that page, I bookmarked it. . . But I don't
see the reference to the adaptor, or conversion, you're talking about?



I finally found it again. Hopefully it works now..

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/index...Pentax_PK.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/udpbl



Which was found he

http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/

I'm not used to the way frames work on a browser. It appears that each
frame may be a different URL..

Sorry for the negligence in my original post.



mike
 




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