James wrote: > Why does the sigma lens when I pulled it apart have all contacts except for > the * go > via a flexiable circuit trace to a board in the lens when all that is > required of A > contacts is to be shorted or open?
Of all your questions, that's the easiest to answer: They do it this way so they can use the same lens mount configuration in all their Pentax-mount lenses and make the shorted/open differences on the main circuit board where all the other Pentax-specific stuff is. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

