Qs on s/m lenses
I've got 2 Super Taks (50/1.4 24/3.5). On both the Auto/Man switch moves freely between the two positions. 1) IIRC, that's not right. It should only move to Auto when on a body. 2) Is it easily repaired? mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
Re: Qs on s/m lenses
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 2 Super Taks (50/1.4 24/3.5). On both the Auto/Man switch moves freely between the two positions. 1) IIRC, that's not right. It should only move to Auto when on a body. 2) Is it easily repaired? mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . My 50/1.4 works just like yours. Don't think it's broken, because it works fine on my SP. -Adam
Re: Qs on s/m lenses
Collin, Only SMC Taks act like you wrote. Super-Taks can be switched between Auto and Man all the time. Your lenses are fine. Dario - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:25 PM Subject: Qs on s/m lenses I've got 2 Super Taks (50/1.4 24/3.5). On both the Auto/Man switch moves freely between the two positions. 1) IIRC, that's not right. It should only move to Auto when on a body. 2) Is it easily repaired? mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
Re: Qs on s/m lenses
The auto/man switches all moved freely, on or off camera, until the Super-Multi-Coated Taks were introduced in 1971. The restriction was made for the open-aperture ES and Spotmatic F cameras to come, to remove the possibility of getting crazy meter readings by having a stopped-down lens feeding a light reading to a camera thinking the lens was wide open. When mounted on Spotmatic II and earlier cameras, the S-M-C lenses do allow for free movement of the auto/manual switch, but not off the camera and not on the ES/ESII/Spot F cameras. Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 2 Super Taks (50/1.4 24/3.5). On both the Auto/Man switch moves freely between the two positions. 1) IIRC, that's not right. It should only move to Auto when on a body. 2) Is it easily repaired? mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . My 50/1.4 works just like yours. Don't think it's broken, because it works fine on my SP. -Adam -- Joe Wilensky Editor, Cornell Chronicle News Editor Cornell News Service 312 College Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (607) 255-3630 phone/voice mail (607) 255-5373 fax http://www.news.cornell.edu/
