Hi I have an old Zenit B SLR camera with a Helios 44-2 58 mm lens and a 135/2.8 mm Vivitar Telephoto lens. Also a two x converter. All these lens are screw type. Is there a digital camera on the market today that will accept these lens. Perhaps there is only an adaptor that would make them work. They were great lens sepecially the Helios. Thanks for your help.
You might want to ask this on the "alternative gear and lenses" forum, which is mostly about discussing adapting older lenses to new cameras.
I'm not certain about the Zenit screwmount, but it is likely the same as Pentax Screwmount (M42). In this case, it's easy to get M42->EOS adapters that let you use screwmount lenses on Canon bodies. The only thing you lose is automatic stop-down when you press the shutter button; you have to focus/compose wide open, then manually stop down the lens right before you take the picture. A few lenses with a protruding rear element (that sticks out past the back of the adapter) may not work on full-frame cameras (especially the Canon 5D) if they hit the camera mirror, but most M42 lenses are fine. Just about everything will work on a crop-frame digital, since they have a smaller mirror.
