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After the death of a close family member who was hooked on photography, I got hold of his cameras, all using a very old mount, M42.
- Chinon CS: unusable, comes with a Chinon 55mm/ƒ1.8 lens, not in a very good condition though.
- Zeiss Icarex 35S without a lens. Seems usable.
- Pentax Spotmatic SP500 (from 1971 I believe) in working order, fitted with a Fujinon 35mm/ƒ2.8 lens and a superb Super Takumar 135mm/ƒ3.5 (type III), see left side picture.
I've bought a M42/Pentax K lens mount in order to be able to use these M42 lenses. I'll post pictures when it has arrived.
The M42 topic here on the so-called HFR (for hardware.fr — in French) seems to have lot of useful information on various M42 lenses and there seems to be quite a number of sites dedicated to these as well. Camerapedia is nice too for references.
After going to my SO's father house, I've found myself with two more M42 lenses.
- Helios 44-M 58mm/ƒ2: a nice Russian-build very fast lens (eq. 82mm)
- Enna Ennalyt 28mm/ƒ3.5: not in a so good condition but works. First lens I saw with a continuous aperture ring.
Why, Oh why did I ever went into this? I found myself now looking on eBay for M42 lenses. LBA in M42-land is hard too. (but I finally did not buy any, M42 is nice but cumbersome to use).
Some pictures on my M42 on Flickr, one with the Helios and the others with the Stak 135mm.
