From: Larry Colen
On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
Yeah. It's the business end for an endoscope used on elephants and hippopotami.
I see a new marketing slogan:
Pentax, for big assholes.
Like Hoya?
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On Apr 14, 2013, at 19:14 , Mark Roberts wrote:
>> I don't *know* anything about it, but I'd be willing to bet money an
>> endoscope is involved somehow.
>
> Well *that's* gonna make the 2013 quotations list. Taken completely
> out of context, of course.
Rick - Yeah. It's the business end for
On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
> Yeah. It's the business end for an endoscope used on elephants and
> hippopotami.
I see a new marketing slogan:
Pentax, for big assholes.
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Yeah. It's the business end for an endoscope used on elephants and
hippopotami.
Rick
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From: John Sessoms
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Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Strange FA50/1,7
I don't *know* anythin
John Sessoms wrote:
>I don't *know* anything about it, but I'd be willing to bet money an
>endoscope is involved somehow.
Well *that's* gonna make the 2013 quotations list. Taken completely
out of context, of course.
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I wonder if it's some kind of add-on device intended to lock the focus
in place? Maybe the instructions are for the device itself.
From: Mark Roberts
Darren Addy wrote:
Not aftermarket. It clearly shows in the paperwork accompanying the
piece. However, I'm mystified.
Is that included paperw
I don't *know* anything about it, but I'd be willing to bet money an
endoscope is involved somehow.
From: Zos Xavius
A strange lens indeed. Focus limiter? No macro? Hmmm. Might be rare,
though the box and packaging would indicate mass production. Maybe an
aftermarket mod? That would be my gues
on 2013-04-14 19:06 Mark C wrote
I can understand why someone would want to modify it for
macro work.
indeed close focus is about the only thing i could ask to improve my A 50mm/1.7
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Comparing the image to my FA 50 f1.7 - the outer barrel appears to be
the same size but the inner barrer in the image is as far out (or
further) than mine is at the closest focusing setting. As toher's have
commented - probably modified for macro work. I hve used my M 50 f17 for
snow crystals a
Maybe an aftermarket mod?
The user manual shows the screw, so it wasn't an after marker mod.
Kenneth Waller
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From: "Zos Xavius"
Subject: Re: Strange FA50/1,7
A strange lens indeed. Focus lim
I did e-mail him :-)
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Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:20 PM
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Why not e-mail Boz, about it, he might be interested to know about it, heck it
might
On 4/14/2013 3:04 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Darren Addy wrote:
Not aftermarket. It clearly shows in the paperwork accompanying the
piece. However, I'm mystified.
Is that included paperwork an official Pentax document? No Pentax logo
or any other company name/logo. It could be a slip included by
Darren Addy wrote:
>Not aftermarket. It clearly shows in the paperwork accompanying the
>piece. However, I'm mystified.
Is that included paperwork an official Pentax document? No Pentax logo
or any other company name/logo. It could be a slip included by some
company doing the modification. Typefa
On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:20 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
> Why not e-mail Boz, about it, he might be interested to know about it, heck
> it might get hm interested in updating his web page.
Why not email the guy selling the lens?
>
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Not aftermarket. It clearly shows in the paperwork accompanying the
piece. However, I'm mystified.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Stan Halpin
wrote:
> 1. Note that the item pictured in the listing is not the item described in
> the writeup. The write-up seems to describe an M or possibly A 50/
1. Note that the item pictured in the listing is not the item described in the
writeup. The write-up seems to describe an M or possibly A 50/1.7, so who knows
what he is really selling.
2. The Lock screw looks to me like it is on the ring of some sort of
aftermarket rotating tripod mount, though
Why not e-mail Boz, about it, he might be interested to know about it,
heck it might get hm interested in updating his web page.
I'd do it but it's your find, so...
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/authors.html
On 4/14/2013 12:52 PM, SV Hovland wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/smc-PENTAX-FA-50mm-f-1
A strange lens indeed. Focus limiter? No macro? Hmmm. Might be rare,
though the box and packaging would indicate mass production. Maybe an
aftermarket mod? That would be my guess
SV Hovland wrote:
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/smc-PENTAX-FA-50mm-f-1-7-Exc-/221204147488?pt=Camer
http://www.ebay.com/itm/smc-PENTAX-FA-50mm-f-1-7-Exc-/221204147488?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item3380cb6d20
This one is new for me. I have never seen a FA50/1.7 with lock screw. It isn't
even listed at http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/primes/normal/index.html ,
but the user manual in the picture s
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