Apparently there are more A*300mm lenses in heaven and earth than are
dreamt of in Pentax documentation.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The Pentax documentation is available from this page:
http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_details/camera_lens--
smc_A-Rear_Converter_1.4x_L/reqID--3106/subsection--
Digital_35mm_converters_adapters
or
http://tinyurl.com/9l3h8
Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, or the lenses they're referring to are
not the lenses you're thinking of.
Godfrey
On Sep 5, 2005, at 3:02 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
As far as I can tell neither the A 1.4 or 2X L converters will work
safely on either A* or M* 300 f4 lenses.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words here are the relevant
pages from Boz's site:
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/teleconverters/A2X-L.html
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/teleconverters/A1.4X-L.html
and my Photo of the rear view of the M*300 f4.0. The A* is exactly
the same.
http://www.mindspring.com/~pjalling/SMCP_M(Star)300mm_f4.0_Rear.jpg
The rear element of these 300's sits just about at the same plane as
the lens mount.
Fred wrote:
Interesting, since I don't think the protruding elements will
allow you
to mount the L converter on a A*300 f4.0, (or on the M*300 for that
matter).
That is correct. I However, I've found that the A 2X-L and the
T6-2X both
work well on the Pentax M*/A* 300/4 twins.
Fred
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