Pentax Mirror Adapter or Mirror Adapter II. It screws into a 52mm filter ring and comes with a step-up / step-down adapter ring that also fits 49mm and 58mm filter rings.
I picked mine up on ebay, but they don't show up there very often. Be patient. I don't know if Pentax still offers the Mirror Adapter, but a visit to the website will probably tell you for sure. It's good for making candid shots... or enemies if you get caught with it. It seems that no one likes a spy, even if you haven't taken their picture. Women in particular seem to become immediately distrustful, suspicious, paranoid, angry... You get the trend. Regards, Tim Engel ----- Original Message ----- From: "gabriel bovino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:16 PM Subject: Has anyone ever seen a RIGHT ANGLE LENS? > Hey everyone, > A friend of mine (actually my girlfriend's friend) just came back from > California and paid us a visit. His uncle gave him a lot of his photographic > equipment (*ikon... no Pentax unfortunately). Anyways, stowed away in his > newly acquired treasure... he found a right angle lens, for lack of better > words. > > It was a lens, or what looked liked a lens to the common eye, with a large > circular hole on the side of the rotatable lens barrel. Within the hole, or > missing circular portion of the barrel, was a mirror angled at 45 degrees with > respect to the mount. > > Within about 30 seconds we figured out what it was used for.... taking > pictures of people without them knowing, good for street photography or candid > shots. You can basically screw it onto your current lens (52mm), point the > camera 90 degrees away from the person like your taking an interesting shot of > something else, wait for them to look at the person with the weird lens > attached to their camera, and "presto"... you've got a picture of someone > without them knowing about it or wanting to kick your $%& for doing so. > > So my real question is... what is this accessory called and where the heck can > I buy one? I looked on EBay but couldn't find anything. > > Gabe > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
