Honestly, its a bit of a hipster thing right now. For canon, there are enough affordable EF mount primes available that it's not really worth messing around with. If you are talking about the Russian stuff for like $120 then yeah maybe that's something to play with, but some of the Zeiss and "cheap" M42 mounts are upwards for $500. Whatever you do, install the adapter on the lens first, then the lens/adapter to the body. I have seen first hand the debris from people screwing the M42 lenses down onto the cheap aluminum adapters - aluminum filings in the camera! Not fun.
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