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Can old lenses be used with new digital cameras.
Hello, all!
Are the new (digital) cameras compatible with lenses used for older 35mm film cameras? I am specifically talking about a Ricoh XRP camera I bought about 20 years ago. The TP lens I bought for it is a "Rikenon P Zoom 1:3.9 70~210 mm Macro. (58 mm). Is there a brand of digital camera that will work with this lens? Or has lens technology developed so much in the last 20 years that it is not worth the bother? I did a bit of web searching last week, and it is apparently an "RK" type mount. Is there some kind of adapter that can interconnect old mounts to new ones? (I know I can always use duct tape...) |
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Can old lenses be used with new digital cameras.
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wrote: Is there a brand of digital camera that will work with this lens? Or has lens technology developed so much in the last 20 years that it is not worth the bother? I did a bit of web searching last week, and it is apparently an "RK" type mount. Is there some kind of adapter that can interconnect old mounts to new ones? (I know I can always use duct tape...) rk is ricoh's variant on the pentax k mount and it's no longer fully compatible with pentax k. althought it will fit, if you mount it on a recent pentax camera, you will likely be unable to remove it without a lot of surgery. in other words, it's not compatible. |
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Can old lenses be used with new digital cameras.
Mike wrote:
Hello, all! Are the new (digital) cameras compatible with lenses used for older 35mm film cameras? I am specifically talking about a Ricoh XRP camera I bought about 20 years ago. The TP lens I bought for it is a "Rikenon P Zoom 1:3.9 70~210 mm Macro. (58 mm). Is there a brand of digital camera that will work with this lens? Or has lens technology developed so much in the last 20 years that it is not worth the bother? I did a bit of web searching last week, and it is apparently an "RK" type mount. Is there some kind of adapter that can interconnect old mounts to new ones? (I know I can always use duct tape...) RK is Ricoh's variant on Pentax's K Mount, which is still used by all Pentax and Samsung DSLRs. RK lenses though have a small pin that is used to tell the body when the lens is in the "P" setting (Pentax lenses have an "A" setting, but communicate this electrically). This pin _may_ foul on the auto-focus drive shaft when the lens is being removed which would be a big problem. (My one RK lens, a 35-70, has never been a drama). The pin can be removed if you are concerned, although it won't meter automatically on your old film camera if you do that. When using these old lenses on modern Pentax DSLR bodies, you only have stop-down metering available. The procedure on the K10D is to have the camera in the M mode, set the aperture on the lens, then use DOF preview to stop down the lens and take a light reading. Pressing the Green button while the lens is stopped down will automatically set an appropriate shutter speed. As for whether using old lenses on a new body is worth it... bear in mind that a modern lens will give you full auto metering, and full auto-focus. Manual focus can sometimes be difficult to use on a DSLR. But to offset that, some of these old lenses have superb optics that are a match for pretty much anything modern. If you already own the old lens it doesn't cost you anything - replacing it would set you back several hundred (or more) dollars, just to get the convenience of auto. Trade that off also against whether having to buy an appropriate body will limit you in your choices (Although the K100D and K10D are fantastic cameras, and new models are apparently just around the corner which should be even better). |
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