Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-16 Thread Darren Addy
Leitax has been around for quite some time. http://www.leitax.com Years ago, I found a Zeiss T* 85mm f2.8 for $5 at a local camera store that was getting rid of their used lens inventory, in a C/Y mount. I converted it with the Leitax mount and sold it on Pentax Forums. Depending upon the lens,

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-14 Thread Zos Xavius
No locking pin. I can see that ending well.. On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Sandy Harris wrote: >> http://adaptist.weebly.com/pentax-k-multi-mount-wr-version.html > > See also: > http://leitax.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net >

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-13 Thread P.J. Alling
A quick perusal of KEH.com for Leica R lenses gave me the vapors... On 9/13/2016 2:22 PM, Sandy Harris wrote: http://adaptist.weebly.com/pentax-k-multi-mount-wr-version.html See also: http://leitax.com/ -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-13 Thread Sandy Harris
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Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-13 Thread P.J. Alling
So engineers are about as good at video as they are at documentation? A key moment "The code is the documentation, if you don't understand it you shouldn't be looking at it." Which has nothing to do with actual engineering, except the person saying it had once called my code two clever by

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-13 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/9/16, P.J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >Apparently a lot of legacy lenses for other mounts can be used on Pentax >DSLRs if one one brave or foolish enough to attempt this conversion. I >forgot where where I first read about this but I was going through some >old bookmarks and

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-12 Thread Brian Walters
I recall seeing this system a couple of years ago too. It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of benefit and a number of compromises. But maybe I'm just biased because most of my non-Pentax lenses are Konica and the short lens register distance of those doesn't allow infinity focus (as with

Pentax Multi Mount.

2016-09-12 Thread P.J. Alling
Apparently a lot of legacy lenses for other mounts can be used on Pentax DSLRs if one one brave or foolish enough to attempt this conversion. I forgot where where I first read about this but I was going through some old bookmarks and figured why not share it with the group.