Re: closet cleaning & vivitar automatic teleconverter 2x-1

2014-05-19 Thread P.J. Alling
It would be pretty obvious if it's screw mount. Since it's labeled automatic I assume it's Pentax/Praktica mount and not some horrible T mount monstrosity. The problem is that while there are a variety of M42 to K mount adapters available, there are none to put K mount lenses on M42 mount came

Re: closet cleaning & vivitar automatic teleconverter 2x-1

2014-05-19 Thread Paul Stenquist
It will work, but it’s hardly worth it. You’d have to use an adapter on each end, and the quality of those old Vivitar converters is not stellar. You can probably find a K-mount version of a similar adapter for less than the cost of the adapters. Of course what you really want is the new Pentax

closet cleaning & vivitar automatic teleconverter 2x-1

2014-05-19 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi Everyone: I’ve been cleaning out a closet, and I found a Vivitar Automatic Tele Converter 2X-1. Am I right in assuming this is a screw-mount converter for Pentax-M42 something? Anyone know anything about this? Is it possible to use with DSLRs? I’m assuming some kind of mount adapter for