Now that I have acquired ttwo Vivitar Series 1 telephotos--the 135/2.3 and
the 200/3.0--I find myself annoyed by the M42 screwmount-to-K mount
adapters. When I set about to remove the lens, the adapter stays in the
Super Program body; the lens unscrews from the adapter. It's VERY annoying
to have to extract the adapter, with whatever tools I have available, so
that I can fit the body with another lens. (That is the idea of
interchangeable lenses, isn't it?) Last night I used a screwdriver, but I
realize this is a no-no.
I had hoped that by using genuine Pentax-brand adapters I wouldn't face
this problem, a problem that I first experienced last year when using a
Samigon-brand adapter to fit an 85/1.8 screwmount lens to my Super Program.
The Samigon actually came with a little tool to extract the adapter.
If I'm going to have this problem each time he removes the lens, I might as
well dedicate a body to it. If I decided to do that, I could have bought
these lenses in their multicoated versions in Minolta mount, or Canon, or
Olympus. The screwmount units--certainly the 200/3--appear to be
single-coated.
I'm tempted to use Loc-Tite to more or less permanently keep each adapter
on the lens.
Comments? Suggestions?
Paul Franklin Stregevsky
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