Mount Pentax lenses on Pentax mount! ;)

With all the hubbub these days about mounting Contax and Leica onto the Micro 4/3 mount Panasonic G1, I just want to say something.

I can mount Pentax lenses on my … wait for it … Pentax bodies!

I now have a Pentax ME Super, manufactured between 1980 and 1986.  I am in love – it is more compact and convenient than the K1000 I used to have before digital – and the viewfinder is even bigger.  I have just finished my first roll of TMAX 400 rated at … wait for it … ISO 400.

And I have my trusty K100D (2007) and it’s close partner, Photoshop CS2 (2005).

On these two cameras, 20 years apart, I’ve been mounting the A 50/1.7 (1984-1989) and A 28/2.8 (1984-1988).

The total weight of the two cameras and the two lenses:
170g + 165g + 445g + 560g = 1340g or about one D3X

I took only the ME Super and the 50mm to the zoo yesterday.  Usually I’m with 50-200mm on APS-C.  It is said that you can zoom with your feet when using a prime, but in this case I used the Tarzan method.  I just exuded some hormones and the animals came to me. *

I’ll be sure to post something from that first roll, scanned by my Epson 2450.

Currently following the TMAX LOVERS pool and the ME Super pool on Flickr.

Stats on weight, dates, etcetera taken from Bojidar Dmitrov’s K-Mount Page.

* Just kidding – actually I brought a toddler who speaks several animal languages.

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

This is me singing and playing at home.  Roger Quilter was a British Composer.  The text is from Tennyson.

Poll: Transparency – should all MPs see the finances?

Just wondering. Why can’t we have open financial books in our government? Every time a new government takes over, they complain that the reason they can’t meet their fiscal promises is that the last administration cooked the books. The Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition said they couldn’t nail down any hard details for the economic stimulus package they wanted to propose, because they can’t plan anything specific, because they don’t know the status. What’s so secret about it? Why not open it up, so that the entire parliament can work together on the budget, and everyone can contribute to it based on full open knowledge of the current status?