revitalised old glass

Received the Fotodiox Canon EOS to M42 adapter (with focus confirmation chip). w00t! Immediately bolted up the old glass! Grabbed the Takumar and Vivitar lenses which have been sitting around and collecting dust.

The big beast, the Series 1 Vivitar 70-210 zoom works. Yeh! Given the APS-C sensor in the body, this should yield effectively 110-340mm. I love this lens. The Vivitar 100mm f/2.8 fixed lens worked great too. This might be very good for astronomical close-ups!

I was not expecting the old Takumar 55mm to offer anything I didn't already have. But then, it is an f/2. It might gather more light than the Canon zoom. I'll just need to repair the loose front element...

With high hopes, I attached the Takumar 28mm. But I was able to make the Canon zoom go wider—of course. They both are matched in terms of maximum aperture. So, this old lens I can retire, along with the old Pentax bodies. But that still leaves me wanting for a very wide angle lens. Bill uses a 6mm.

Exposures were off. Took some fiddling to get them right. I'll have to learn how to program the little onboard chip...

It is so satisfying knowing these old lens will not go into a garbage heap somewhere. That I can breathe a bit more life into them.