William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" > Subject: Re: K100D super (unofficial for now it seems) > > > >> But it would be nice in K10D class body. Just like Nikon did in D200, >> where compatibility with manual lenses is better than in any Pentax >> AF body, even these with full K-compatibility. > > Well no. > Think pre AI lenses, which are pretty much unusable unless they have been > modified to AI, which Nikon no longer does. > They got around this somewhat with the D40, but this camera is really > crippled with all but a couple of lens series. > Nikon is still a hodge podge of non-compatability. > > William Robb > >
AI conversions cost about $30 these days and can be done at home with a Dremel in a pinch. Nikon did factory conversions for 25 years, I think that's enough for actual hardware mods for lenses that haevn't been made since 1980. And a D200, D2X/H or F6 will matrix meter at open aperture with an AI-converted lens from 1959, and offer wireless multi-group i-TTL flash and Aperture Priority AE with that lens. Pentax can't touch that anymore (since the MZ-S was the only body with anything similar in capability) even if a Pentax body can mount lenses from 1948. Pentax offers no more support than Canon does for pre-K mount lenses (and K mount was introduced only a year or so before AI was). The only pre-AI lenses that can't be used on modern bodies after an AI conversion are the old wides that needed MLU to mount. And Nikon built bodies that supported those lenses until 2002. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
