Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don: Thanks for looking. I appreciate your critique. My screw mount cameras are sitting on a shelf, and any Pentax bodies used by me now are bayonet mount. I have too many cameras but I do use most of them. Jim On 12/10/12 8:46 PM, Don Dory wrote: > Jim, many of the images do a good job of masking the use of a fisheye. > Also, you have done an outstanding job dealing with the expansion that an > ultra-wide can do to a scene. > > I finally ordered a 42mm to Nex so I can use my 17mm Tacky again. I > probably will never run another roll of film through a camera. > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jim Hemenway<jim at hemenway.com> wrote: > >> My last roll of Plus-X and my new-to-me Pentax M-Fisheye >> >> http://www.hemenway.com/**12042012-ZX5n-FisheyeM-Orange-**Plus-X/<http://www.hemenway.com/12042012-ZX5n-FisheyeM-Orange-Plus-X/> >> >> This lens is a 17mm prime just for the K mount Pentax film cameras. It's >> an excellent lens and is very well built. I used to have the screw mount >> version, but traded it a year ago to someone who did some work for me. So >> when I wanted to get a replacement recently, I forsook my Spotmatics and >> other screw mount cameras and went for this one. >> >> I think that it's a trifle better than my Leica-R 17mm, which was also >> made in Japan by Minolta. >> >> Comments? >> >> Jim, 'But I still have a few rolls of Plus-X 120" Hemenway >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > >