Thanks Godfrey, I think I will just reserve this for the film body then... it does have a little extra rotary pin affair that just protrudes into the body. I wouldn't fancy trying to force it off the camera if it got hung up.
Cheers, Drew. Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On May 9, 2008, at 2:39 PM, drew wrote: > >> I have a Vivitar 2x Teleconverter that came with a P30 I bought ages >> ago. I have just tried it on my *ist-DL but it does not appear to >> meter >> correctly, Every shot is overexposed and the aperture does not display >> on the camera. It calls itself a PK-A/R-PK. >> I suppose by question is, should the camera be able to display the >> aperture and should it be able to meter correctly with an A lens? > > A proper Pentax-A series lens should allow the body to use all > metering modes and control the aperture from the body with the lens > aperture ring locked on the A setting. The marking on the > teleconverter suggests that it ought to ... PK-A == Pentax-A, R-PK == > Ricoh-Pentax K ... but not all of them work correctly. > > Be careful with lenses that have the PK/R-PK markings ... there are > various permutations of this marking. They can jam on the lens mount > because Ricoh has a pin that slides into a hole it shouldn't connect > to on Pentax-KAF mounts. > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
