My mailman delivered a couple of accessories that will take me to where I've never gone before. The first is an adapter ($26 from Ukraine) that will let me use the lenses from my medium format Hasselbladski on my Spotmatic and H1a.

It has the M42 screw mount on one end and the Salut-S/Kiev 88 mount on the other.

Mounted on the Pentax, or any other M42 mount camera, it now allows me to put on all my Salut-S lenses on my Pentaxes.

Like the 90mm lens that is the normal lens on the Salut-S and a moderate telephoto on the Pentax. What is nice about this lens is that it will focus as close as two feet which makes this also kind of a macro lens on the 35mm Pentax. Macro work is something that rangefinders don't do so well but SLRs are great at. And, when I bought my second Salut-S I ended up with two of these lenses. Now that second one has a new home. I'm looking forward to using it when I get the time to shoot again.

Mr. Mailman also brought a set of 3 extension tubes ($15.95 on eBay) so that I can do real macro work. Macro work is something I haven't really done before. I'm looking forward to it.