Hey everyone, A friend of mine (actually my girlfriend's friend) just came back from California and paid us a visit. His uncle gave him a lot of his photographic equipment (*ikon... no Pentax unfortunately). Anyways, stowed away in his newly acquired treasure... he found a right angle lens, for lack of better words.
It was a lens, or what looked liked a lens to the common eye, with a large circular hole on the side of the rotatable lens barrel. Within the hole, or missing circular portion of the barrel, was a mirror angled at 45 degrees with respect to the mount. Within about 30 seconds we figured out what it was used for.... taking pictures of people without them knowing, good for street photography or candid shots. You can basically screw it onto your current lens (52mm), point the camera 90 degrees away from the person like your taking an interesting shot of something else, wait for them to look at the person with the weird lens attached to their camera, and "presto"... you've got a picture of someone without them knowing about it or wanting to kick your $%& for doing so. So my real question is... what is this accessory called and where the heck can I buy one? I looked on EBay but couldn't find anything. Gabe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
