William Robb wrote: > ----- 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 > >
A D200 is $1599CDN and a K10D is $1099CDN, you must be looking at an 18-200/D200 kit to get 2.5x the price. Not as big a difference as you make out. And as to EOS, I was talking about EOS's screwmount support, which is the same (actually better as the EOS M42 adaptors are mechanically superior to the Pentax ones, as they lock on the mount with the lock pin and release normally). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
