Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-12 Thread P. J. Alling
Sounds like you got a deal, though I hope it was a standard K mount adapter butchered not a Ka mount, the latter are a bit scarce. Larry Colen wrote: Picked up the lens today at lunch. Collin had bought it new old stock from adorama. Box is a bit beat up but lens is in good shape. No lens hood

Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:40:44PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: Sounds like you got a deal, though I hope it was a standard K mount adapter butchered not a Ka mount, the latter are a bit scarce. Yup, a standard one. The one glitch with the lens is that if you hold the adapter to close position

Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
Is it the version that goes all the way to 1:1, or the earlier one that needs a 2x adaptor to get there? On Jun 12, 2009, at 14:14 , Larry Colen wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:40:44PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: Sounds like you got a deal, though I hope it was a standard K mount adapter

Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:50:47PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: Is it the version that goes all the way to 1:1, or the earlier one that needs a 2x adaptor to get there? It only goes to 1:2 s/n 501919 it says 5288 japan Tamron SP 90mm 1:2.5 (|) 55 the aperture reads AE_32 on the left and

Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-11 Thread Larry Colen
Picked up the lens today at lunch. Collin had bought it new old stock from adorama. Box is a bit beat up but lens is in good shape. No lens hood though. He also threw in a Tamron adaptall 28/2.8 Canon FD and Minolta MD adaptall adapters. The Pentax adapter that came with it had the stop down

Re: Tamron adapatall 90/2.5 macro, got it

2009-06-11 Thread Adam Maas
Sigma SA mount cameras are the bastard stepchild of Canon EOS mount and Pentax K mount. They're electronically EOS mount in all regards and have EOS's 44mm register, but use a lightly modified K bayonet (it turns the wrong way) rather than the EOS bayonet. It's generally thought the first SA body