----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: K100D super (unofficial for now it seems)
> > 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. I've seen a few of these home done AI conversions. Not pretty, and sometimes huge metering inaccuracies result. The D200 is 2.5x more expensive than the K10 (at least it is at B&H), so you are hardly making a valid comparison. How many K10's would Pentax sell at 2K a pop? Canon Fd lenses can't mount to an EOS without an optical adaptor. Pre-K lenses merely need a mechanical adaptor. Go check the Nikon website for the list of caveats per model for different lens types. It's quite impressive. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
