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Dave ---- Begin Original Message ---- From: Bob Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:15:27 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Re: Need help w/ how to use SM lenses on K mount bodies I have a 85/1.8 Super MC Takumar M42 that I would like dedicate to K mount. �If �memory serves, there was a thread about how to modify the adapter to accomplish this, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. Any help out there? Thanks...Bob --- David Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the adaptor should go on first.Thats the > method i > use and so far,so good<g> > > Dave > ---- Begin Original Message ---- > > From: Joe Wilensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:29:44 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Need help w/ how to use SM lenses > on K mount bodies > > > Maybe this is because I never received the tool with > the Pentax > adapter I have, but I always put the adapter on the > lens first, > instead of trying to bayonet it into the camera > body. Of course, the > lens then comes out by itself, leaving the adapter > in the body, but > when I'm done I've always been able to get it out > using a fingernail > and careful turning of the adapter edges with my > fingertips. > > What's the proper procedure for using the adapter? > > Joe > > > >Steve. > >Open up wide to focus,then adjust ap. ring to get > your meter reading > >then shoot.Its a bit better to focus wide open than > at the metered > >reading i find. > >Do your self a favour and buy the Pentax > mount.There is a red dot > >just as on a lens.Line them up and use the tool or > small pen to twist > >it on.It will lock in place.To undo,put the tool in > were the litt;e > >spring is pull towards the lens opening to release > ,then twist off. > >I use the adaptor sometimes with my 105 f 2.8 > > > >Dave > > > > ---- End Original Message ---- > > > > > Pentax User > Stouffville Ontario Canada > "Art needs to be in a frame.That way we know when > the art > stops and the wall begins"--Frank Zappa > http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ > http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses > Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: > http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail > ===== What boots up must come down. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ---- End Original Message ---- Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada "Art needs to be in a frame.That way we know when the art stops and the wall begins"--Frank Zappa http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
