M42 lenses - anyone use them?

[Markulous]

I used to do a fair bit of M42 shooting with my Sigma cameras but since I reluctantly moved to Canon cameras haven't done any with those (but still do on my IR'd Sigma SD10)

Zenitar 16mm Fisheye - excellent value SWA and I've taken some great shots with it
Sigma 400 - cheap as chips and might've been better to stick a chip on the front of the camera - but still fun to use and learned how to manual focus on BIFs!
Sigma 70-150 macro - never really got to grips with it (but not true macro anyway!). The 105 took over!
Pentax 50mm - everyone said "get a 50 as it'll be ever so useful" - still waiting for the usefulness to kick in! Always used my 105 in preference

Been playing with the idea of getting a Peleng 8mm Fisheye - dyxum review as I know I'll have a lot of fun with it, it's much cheaper than other 8mm lenses and maybe I'll even get an OK pic or two! Anyone have any thoughts?

[tenchy]

Quite a few use them. I think Chaz and Paulmag use them on their canons

[tenchy]

And if your 50mm has manual aperture, be good for macro on cheap tubes

[carlb40]

And if your 50mm has manual aperture, be good for macro on cheap tubes

Or on a reversing ring

[chaz]

I use a 135mm 2.8 and 50mm 1.8 M42s with adapter, i also occasionally use Pentax manual lenses with EOS adapters.

[Markulous]

Cheers! I really should dig out the M42s, find myself an adapter and give 'em a whirl on the Canons. Having said that, do the Canons read the light correctly? My Sigmas will read the light and give the shutter speed according to how I manually set the aperture

And yes, I've only got M42s that have the aperture ring (didn't seem much point in getting a lens without!)

[johan]

I use all sorts of M42. Can't remember the last time I used a modern lens really.