In a message dated 5/29/2002 6:23:15 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Could you give a bit more explanation of the failure? > > 1) How often is "sometimes"? I've taken it out shooting two or three times total and this happened on two occasions -- I'd taken some photos with the combination successfully but then had the problem on another try. On the second occasion, I turned the camera off and back on (in case it was a camera problem) and the lens/adapter/camera combination behaved properly after I turned it back on. > > 2) Do you mean that it won't acquire AF lock, or that it doesn't even > seem to try to AF before giving up or what? It moves as if attempting to focus but does not come anywhere near succeeding. I also failed to mention that this was a problem with objects closer to infinity than to me, and it seemed that it couldn't focus that far. > > 3) If it doesn't even seem to try to AF, do you feel any vibrations or > anything that would indicate the camera body is trying to spin the AF > motor but the movement isn't going through? As above ... > > 4) Have you cleaned all of the contacts on both sides of the 1.7X AF > T/C? If one of them "drops out" occasionally, the camera might it's > got an MF lens rather than an AF one. > Will try that this evening -- it has been a few months since I last attempted to use the adapter, so I can't remember now if I already cleaned the contacts. Thanks. ERNR My photographs hang on the virtual walls at http://members.aol.com/ernreed - 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 .
