Re: LBA ?.. Kenko and soligor P/AF extention tube sets

2009-06-26 Thread Miserere
Christian, One more 'Pentax Quirk' to add to the list. I'm not bothered about the AF, although somebody using them to shorten the min focus distance of a long lens might be. However, I'm surprised we haven't seen some enterprising Chinese store on Ebay selling new P/KA tubes. They could make a sm

Re: LBA ?.. Kenko and soligor P/AF extention tube sets

2009-06-26 Thread Christian
Miserere wrote: Did you say **AF** tubes Damn, I'd be happy simply with P/KA tubes, which generally go for $200 or so on Ebay, if they show up at all. Good find, James! I hope you didn't pay $300 for each :-) --M. I had a great set of Vivitar AF extension tubes. They were like

Re: LBA ?.. Kenko and soligor P/AF extention tube sets

2009-06-26 Thread Miserere
Did you say **AF** tubes Damn, I'd be happy simply with P/KA tubes, which generally go for $200 or so on Ebay, if they show up at all. Good find, James! I hope you didn't pay $300 for each :-) --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -

Re: LBA ?.. Kenko and soligor P/AF extention tube sets

2009-06-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I saw a set of these in one of the few local camera shops that still carried a more or less traditional group of products. They wanted $170.00 for them new in a box. I passed at the time but I wondered how well they worked. James wrote: Just picked up one set each of these. Almost impossiab

LBA ?.. Kenko and soligor P/AF extention tube sets

2009-06-25 Thread James
Just picked up one set each of these. Almost impossiable to find a set that passes all 7 lens information contacts through. At long last, I can use my A 50mm 1.7 with tubes and PTTL flash instead of manual flash and a lot of guess work for my macro setup. James -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail Li