---- "P. J. Alling" <p_all...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I know that when mounted on my D and DS the > 1.7x identifies itself as an A lens, yet it will auto focus, while with > normal A lenses the camera won't even turn on the AF motor. So at > minimum it lets the camera know it is capable of auto focus even though > it's an "A" lens, which if you think about it is either a really neat > trick or exceeding simple minded, (or maybe both)..
If I was Pentax, I would have a switch, worked by the screwdriver, that turned the AF motor on/off, depending whether the driver was in or out of its hole. Maybe a halfturn anyway, to make sure that there was no slot to engage to. -- 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.
