Vivitar 220/SL 35mm SLR Film Camera M42 Mount w/ 50MM 1:1.8 auto 49MM lens

what's up guys today I'll talk to you about a series of cameras that are very exciting because they're affordable very common and really old-school mechanical these are the m42 series of SLR cameras m42 being the name of the lens mount used now this lens mount was actually invented by the Germans at Carl Zeiss in 1938 it's quite simple it's just m32 thread so you basically just take the lenses and screw them right onto the camera until their finger tight and that's it what's great about them is they weren't copyrighted or anything like that so a massive number of lenses and cameras have been made for the system of by many many manufacturers both German and Japanese so there are a lot of great options and they are so common that you can find these cameras pretty much at any thrift store if you look so I want to just cover the four cameras that I have as well as some of the quirks of the