[rollei_list] Re: best M42 cameras
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:56:33 -0400
At 09:05 PM 9/8/2007, Peter J Nebergall wrote:
That word,"best." .... I know the ones I like
the best. They're all a blend of size, quality,
reliability and features. One camera can't be
everythingfor all. I like the Contax D and its
descendant,the Pentacon FM. I have 3 Edixamats,
and like them all. I had good luck with my S1
and H1a...but I find meters irritating sometimes...
I agree with Peter. I detest the word "best" in
these circumstances. There is no single "best"
sports car or single-malt Scotch or Latakia pipe
tobacco or Jersey Pork Roll: there are just the
ones which a given person finds most
satisfactory. (The same might not be true for
folding kayaks: there, Klepper seems to be ahead
for all purposes by a mile. <he grins, owning a
1966 Aerius II with the downwind sail kit.)
I have used M42 gear since the middle 1960's and
have used a LOT of it. I have not kept any M42
cameras for regular use though I do have a Contax
D and a Zeiss Ikon SL 706 which I use on
occasion, along with a Praktica FX3 but the last
is inoperable and is to this point just a test
camera body. But I also have M42 adapters for my
Rolleiflex SL35E and my Praktica BX20 and my
Leica M6 and I do use these on occasion with my
plethora of M42 lenses. (Questar uses M42 for
the threads on its camera mount as they adopted
this before Tokina had opted for the tighter
T-Mount design, so I will use these adapters, for
instance, when trying to take pictues of birds with my Questar 3.5.)
In the end, there are a gazillion great M42
camera bodies out there, perhaps most notably the
Praktica and Pentax lines. But there are also a
lot of quirky camera bodies in M42, such as that Zeiss Ikon SL 706.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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