>So who would have thought that Canon Digital ends up being as backward >compatible with Pentax lenses as Pentax Digital is! <VBG>
LOL. It's true. Wasn't -quite- as compatible as I had been led to believe. There was a small mod I had to make to the M42 / EOS adapter. When I first mounted the lens, the shutter wouldn't fire and it threw an error message: 'ERROR 01' which turns out to be 'clean the freakin lens contacts you moron - I can't find the bloody lens'... Puzzled, I took the lens off the adapter and tried firing with just the adapter aboard. No joy. Then I took the adapter off and fired it bare- bones with nowt but God's own air as the lens. It fired. Aha - so on closer inspection down the neck of the Canon, I find a small detector at the end of one of the flanges for the EOS mount, so that when an EOS lens is mounted, it contacts this small moveable protrusion and tells the camera that there is in fact a lens aboard, and so can you contact the lens via the row of electrical contacts? With an EOS lens, the camera says, 'sure, I can feel every one of those little brass buggers, ready to fire, heee-hawww'. But with the M42 / EOS adapter aboard, the little detector is engaged but the camera can't feel the contacts and say's, 'sheesh, sumpin fishy goin on here - sposed to be a lens here, but they ain't no friggin contacts on it - hell you ain't firin with that mess there boy'. ERROR 01. So, a quick trip into the garage and I fired up the bench grinder. Three minutes later and a suitable chunk is removed out of the end of one of the flanges on the M42 / EOS adapter. This time, the adapter is attached, but there is no metal to contact the detector, and so the camera thinks; 'they ain't nuthin there boy, you go ahead and do whatever it is you wanna, i'm layin low. BTW, you got manual, you got program, an you got AV and that's all boy...' And so it works :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
