Let's see, your building a lens adapter, you have electronic lenses. For $100.00 I'd think you could include a micro motor and a chip to tell it how far to move, /if/ it could read the lens and communicate with the camera. I guess they couldn't be bothered, electronics are so expensive these days.

On 2/24/2010 11:07 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
Electrically compatible is simple. But K mount isn't functionally
electrically coupled. It's a mechanical mount with a few electrical
fatures added on to make meter coupling easier. You need a mechanical
system to get any aperture actuation.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:33 PM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com>  wrote:
So Samsung couldn't be bothered to make their new lens mount electrically
compatible with their legacy lenses...

I must admit the fact that a photography magazine could be so clueless about
photography is a sad commentary.




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