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hopefully not too stooopud RioRico
OK, so I've got this great Pentax K20D and about 80 lenses I got on eBay recently, but they just AIN'T ENOUGH! Lots of those lenses are old M42 glass, German or Russian or Japanese. Lots of them will be tried out and resold. But they just AIN'T ENOUGH!

So I've been looking at listings for Krasnogorsk 16mm cine cams, and they take M42 lenses. The standard K-cam lens is a Meteor 17-69mm f/1.9 fast zoom.

My questions: are such Meteor lenses usable on still cams (like my dSLR) with a M42 adapter? Or will the lens butt tangle with the cam mirror? And is the lens any good, or just the usual cine POS?

I asked this at MFL and Russian Camera and Pentax forums, and got no usable answers. Anybody here know? Or care?
>> Anonymous
you scare me

Also no, the sensor size is too large on your DSLR, the 16mm cine cams have smaller film, much smaller film.
Therefore you will get a small circle on your images. corners will be black

IF you want holgaish shitty pics, then go for it.
>> Anonymous
>AIN'T ENOUGH!

sage
>> Anonymous
My guess is the flange to focal plane distance on those lenses will be very short so you would never get focus past like 5cm.
>> RioRico
Thanks, I'm not asking about 16mm cams in general, but specifically about the Krasnogorsk cams and their M42 lenses. I read that standard M42 lenses work on the K-cams, so I wonder about vice-versa. Does anyone here HAVE EXPERIENCE with K-cams and their lenses?

As for being frightening -- well, despite my general resemblance to a misshapen hypercephalic Yeti, I'm actually pretty norbal. Heh heh.
>> Serenar !m827jEgWi.
>>267851
You don't get it. Because the Krasnogorsks use 16mm film, there is a physical impossibility that their lenses will cover the full sensor size of your K20D. Because normal M42 lenses project a larger image circle than that of 16mm film, they will work successfully on a Krasnogorsk.

>>267749is completely right.
>> Anonymous
>>267785
This is true.