Well- I did it. The Pen got here today, the m42 and K adapters arrived last Friday. It looks like a nice way to get a little more use out of the old manual focus lenses.
Cameraquest will be glad to sell you a Voigtlander 17.5mm f/0.95 or 25mm f/0.95 manual focus, micro 2/3 lens for about $1200 each... Did a little poking around with it tonight. Bolted on the old full frame Zenitar 16mm fisheye. Most of the fishiness was cropped out by the small sensor- There was surprisingly little distortion left. Will post a few examples, once I get a SD card in it. On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Don Guthrie wrote: > Yes Mike, I have one and have mated it with manual focus lenses back to > screw-mounted Pentax Ricoh Canon and and sharp an old Russian-made using a > rather bizarre tilt-shift adapter. > > I had the same problems with manual focus that I do with any camera - I ain't > very good at it. If you have the time to zoom in with the preview button you > can do very well. And I have had good luck with close-up work. > > Frankly I use mine all the time as my carry around & back-up and video > shooter. I advise you to snap one up. There are adapters for almost any type > of lens just search Amazon for micro 4/3s. Because of the sensor size > everything is more or less telephoto. Even my 10 to 20 Sigma is a 20 on the > Oly. One of my favorite Pentax lenses on Oly is the cheap but surprisingly > good 35-80. Plastic but very lightweight. > > > > > [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:29:03 -0400 >> From: Michael Beacom<[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: OT: Refurbished E-PL1 body through Amazon for $120 >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII >> >> Also sold on e-bay. Cameta has 6 left as I write this. >> >> You've got my attention now (currently in acquisition mode) Any one have >> experience with it with Manual Focus K-mount lenses? >> Is it annoying? >> >> Cheers >> Mike >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
