Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/18

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Subject: [Leica] Some 1st shots with my new Pentax *isDS digital
From: sdp35 at cwazy.co.uk (Craig Zeni)
Date: Fri Feb 18 05:44:53 2005
References: <42153E3F.8030208@hemenway.com>

On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> While waiting for the R digital module to show up, I bought this 
> Pentax digital with which I can use all of my old M42 screw-mount 
> lenses as well as with the newer auto-focus glass.
>
> Here's some of my first shots with it.  They're all shot as JPGs, I 
> hope to try RAW sooner or later, emphasis on sooner:
> http://hemenway.com/P-isDS/
> The first shot is cropped by about 10%, the rest are uncropped.
> The fisheye lens used is my "old" screw-mount 17mm Fisheye-Takumar.
>
> I think it's a pretty good digital camera, here's the full file for 
> the second image... you can make out the stripes on the flag in the 
> center of the picture, It's 1.6mb, so it may take awhile on dial-up.
> http://209.197.89.228/IMGP0113large.jpg
>
> Just for the heck of it, I tried some shots with some Nikon lenses, 
> (before I sell'em) handheld onto the isDS:
> http://hemenway.com/PentaxDS-withNikonLens/

Jim, are there some sort of adapters to fit Nikkors to the Pentax body?


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