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One of my favorite forums is at PentaxForums.com. There is a huge amount of material there from lens reviews to photo galleries. This includes good old film and DSLR material. It’s well worth checking out if you haven’t been there.

Two of my favorite sections of their forums are the Takumar club and the Pentax Medium Format forum.

Please check this site out even if you don’t shoot Pentax.

BTW, if you don’t shoot Pentax, you really should. Excellent lenses. Excellent bodies.

I always laugh when I see an ad on craigslist and some dolt lists a Pentax camera as great for students.

They’re great for anyone.

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Since good camera repair people can be hard to find, I try to keep track of them and mention them on this site.

There’s a name that pops up in the Pentax world quite a bit for camera repair. I haven’t used him yet, but his reputation seems very good. I might send off a Spotmatic SP1000 for a CLA. It seems due for one.

Eric Hendrickson’s Pentax Camera Service

This ends up being more of a metal working video than a photography video, but I thought it was interesting.

This video shows how to machine the rear element of a Minolta 58/1.2 to allow it to work in a Canon full frame body like and EOS 5D Mark II without having the mirror strike the rear element.

He gives a good explanation of what he is doing and you can see how he does the process on his mini lathe.

One other nice thing about this video: It’s an example of shooting video using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a 42mm adapter to use other classic glass. He used a Kiron 24mm f/2 and Pentax Super Takumar 55/1.8. I’ll have more examples of 42mm adapter video in another post.

Click here for Adapters for Minolta lens mounts to Canon EOS cameras
Click here for Adapters for 42mm lens mounts (like Pentax) to Canon EOS cameras
Click here for Canon EOS 5D Mark II Cameras

Full-Frame ∞ Focus w/Minolta MC-Rokkor PF 58/1.4 lens. from motleypixel on Vimeo.