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     Stuart Willis Rating: N/A |
Hello Guy .. Thee are myriad screw adaptors for bayonet mount cameras but they remove so much of the attractive, endearing and useful facilities of those cameras that their application converts a fine photographic tool into a makeshift. You would lose the open aperture viewing, the open aperture metering and the auto-iris. You are right. There are millions of good and inexpensive M42 lenses to be had these days. And there are also millions of perfect match cameras for which they were intended. I would suggest you sit tight and watch out for Canon FD Mount lenses but in the meantime you might find it a workable proposition to pick up an M42 Mount camera body. As to your closing question - good branded SLR lenses were , and remain, in a very competitive global marketplace. But if your end results are 4 x 5 prints from a Mini-Lab - you probably wouldn't perceive any differences between the output from a Zeiss Planar (arguably on of the world's finest lenses) and the Jena Domiplan (arguably the next rung up from the bottom of a jam-jar). Just an opinion - and that is what you sought. Best Stuart Willis |