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Be careful if you are tempted to put the Mamiya SX lenses on a different screw mount body. The open aperture metering pin can drop into one of the M42 mount screw points and make the lens difficult/impossible to remove without a total strip down. I believe some Pentax M42 bodies were prone to...

Thanks for the input

Thank you, good to know

Of course you are right, and a good copy of a poor lens is better than a poor copy of a good lens. I don't have the dedicated hoods for these lenses so will have to improvise, probably with a Cokin square hood or similar, unless I can find dedicated hoods cheaply.

Yes, of course you're right, I mixed them up 🙄, I even have them written down correctly in my lens book!!

It's a test I intend to run, I just wondered if someone had beaten me to it/

I have 2 Bronicas, an S2A and an EC, both sharing the same lens mount. With those cameras I have a pair of 50mm lenses:- a Nikkor H 50mm f2.8 a Nikkor O 50mm f3.5 My question is, which of these 2 lenses is considered to be the better?

Who am I to disappoint a Moderator? 🤣🤣 Bronica S2A 80mm Fomapan 100

Lol, I wondered if anyone would recognise Alston from that pic. 😀

Some subjects just cry out to be shot square:-

Hi, I'm George, I am well beyond retirement age and have taken photographs since 1964. I collect cameras, and use most of them at least once a year each, but my favourites get a lot more use. I have digital cameras - Nikons and Fuji x-Mount rangefinder style; film cameras from 35mm folders...