The great rush until the end of the fiscal year
March 4th, 2007
The end of the fiscal year in Japan is fast approaching and it seems everyone is caught up in a great rush to wrap things up and finish deadlines before starting the new year in spring. Reports have to be written, products manufactured in quantity, flaws detected and fixed, inventories counted, resignation letters submitted, contracts renewed, moving plans finalized, the list goes on and on… And we’re caught up in this rush, too, of course.
But when you’re over your head with work in the office or factory, it’s always refreshing to take a break and head to the great outdoors.
Here’s a photo of a friend of mine, testing his ultra-modern Pentax K10D coupled with an ancient Takumar 400mm/f5.6. While Nikon gets all the credit for making their pro dSLRs compatible with their manual lenses, no camera company beats Pentax for lens backward-compatibility. Old, rusty M42 screwmount lenses work on the newest Pentax dSLRs without a hitch.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:49 am
I’ve tried an officemate’s K10D and the viewfinder is beautiful! I could imagine how nice it would be to use with M42 lenses.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Yes, the K10D is a nice camera! I’ve used a Nikon D70 for a few years now and just peering through the K10D’s viewfinder makes me want to get one. I heard it’s about as bright as the D80. (Although I’ve handled both on separate occasions, I couldn’t remember exactly which is brighter.)
M42 lenses mount without problems with an adapter. I forgot the exact method of exposure but it wasn’t cumbersome at all.
But the newer KA-mount manual lenses are what I’m after. I’ve used the K10D with an Pentax-A 50mm/F1.2 lens and the experience reminds me of my manual prime lenses before I went digital and got a D70 with a dim viewfinder and a slow zoom-lens that came with it.