Some interesting architectural photos..... (must be due to slow AF the buildings have flown away ) ....

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Martine+Hamilton-Smith+photographer&tbm=isch&t...

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Better than running after a building with a MF tilt shift lens and the sun setting fast

I wonder how many mountains, hills, trees and forests have run or flown away from jules

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Can't the ROM be hacked on these to make them screwdrive?

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Just looking through a 1981 US magazine. They did have Praktica's at least in 1981 and Edixa's were long since dead so I suppose the description Practika thread would have been used. Pentax were now bayonet mount. I did originally say in the 60'70's when I was actually surprised to see Pentax-Edixa used in magazines.

It was a well known Pentax expert that told me that the US didn't have CZ lenses and that was the reason for their prices rising. Maybe he meant 60/70's.

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Quite a poor page that one Horst. This one lists a lot of M42 lenses by different makers.
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/M42

The origin of the M42 was actually the Soviet military who wanted a standardised thread.
See:
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8...

" In 1947, the Soviet military administration ordered to produce a unified screw thread, the birth of M42"

You possibly don't need the translation.

See also..
http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/wirgin2.htm

For marketing Pentax Edixa thread sounded better also the early M42 Practica cameras were M40. It was the Contax S cameras that were M42.

Another reason could have been the possibility that Practica's weren't sold in the US and although the cameras came out in the late 40's. the lenses were delayed until well into the fifties. (Source Ivor Matanle Revew)

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The D500 looks a bit too buggy for me The new D510 looks more like it although they still haven't got an Infra-Red remote

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If they do release a K3 eye-eye-eye it will be purely to sell the KP

Touch of genius bringing out the KP in order to shift a boatload of K3ii's soon sorted out the people that said don't buy a K3ii because the low light performance isn't as good as a K-5

The KP has good low light performance but people don't want to pay for it until a more expensive camera gets released. Then they will panic buy KP's

Other manufacturers and portrait photographers have been selling like this for years Nobody buys the most expensive. It's just there to make the lower priced stuff look cheap

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Ha!Ha! .... People complaining now about the price of a non-existent camera that has no price or specification and may never exist

Ricoh must be seriously considering throwing in the towel

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My first SLR at the age of 17 was a Practica..... Awful camera I traded it in after 3 months for a Spotmatic. I never once heard the M42 thread mentioned as a Practica thread, probably because it was considered a poor quality system. Zenith thread was never mentioned either Exacta/Edixa was and and still is upmarket most of the top optical firms made lenses for Exacta/Edixa. Makers such as Schneider, Alpa (Swiss) Schacht Ulm etc.

Schacht Ulm made some great lenses especially the 90mm portrait lens (now £130 to £300) . Great colours and innovation with built in cable release socket and visual red indication of DOF.

Some Examples

I like the work of this guy with Schacht...

http://www.flickriver.com/search/ocrakraut+schacht/

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In the 60's and 70's the M42 thread was widely known as the Pentax-Edixa thread. Strangely even though there were some excellent lenses made in West and East Germany for the Edixa camera in M42 Pentax users have always ignored them completely

Too late now they are going for serious money


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