On 16 Jan 2003 at 7:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No joke, no magic, but you will need that screwmount to K mount adapter on the > front of the Pentax 1.7x AF Adapter. It works by moving a small lens in the > 1.7x adapter. Put your screwmount lens on the front of the adapter. Focus it > to somewhere near in-focus. The AF camera motor will spin, moving the little > lens back and/or forth and bring the image into focus. You get AF with a > screwmount lens... only with your Pentax can you get 40 year old lenses to > autofocus!
The Pentax 1.7x AF Adapter will allow AF using a screw mount lens if one or more the lens mount contacts on the adaptor are shorted to the mount otherwise it's a no-go. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
