> Now here is an interesting question. Would there be enough of a market > to make it worthwhile for someone to set up a company to retrofit > modified mounts on older Pentax lenses? Either one that has a manual > stopdown lever, or better one that simulates an 'A" mount. Now the > leaves the question do you guys really want to use your old lenses badly > enough to pay for such?
This is tricky... modifying the mount to be always 'A', (then you leave your lens at fully closed F stop), and drill contacts appropriately to set the correct aperture range could be done pretty easily. However, the non-linearity of the aperture lever is the real problem here. I can't think of an easy way to fix that... I wouldn't pay for it, but then, the M lenses I have aren't particularly expensive or exciting (M28/2.8, M50/1.7, M135/3.5, M200/4 and a crappy third party 28-80 zoom). Love, Light and Peace, - Peter Loveday Director of Development, eyeon Software
