On 10/2/2011 1:23 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "Bob W"
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Bong Manayon
Sent: 02 October 2011 10:00
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Subject: PENTAX RICOH IMAGING, LTD.
http://www.ricoh.com/release/2011/1001_1.html
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Bong Manayon
http://bong.manayon.net
I wonder if the PK mount will be renamed the PRICK mount.
More appropriate to some list members ...
If I remember correctly, Ricoh used the PK mount for their own SLR
cameras, but there was some kind of a problem with their
implementation. Either Ricoh PK lenses would get stuck if you tried to
mount them on a Pentax body or Pentax lenses would get stuck if you
mounted them on a Ricoh body.
They had their own equivalent but different version of the A type mount,
they called it P for program. The P pin is always down and falls right
where a screw hole is on the Kaf mount, where it becomes stuck...
Some companies actually made a hybrid that worked on both Pentax Ka
mount and Richo KR mount cameras. I have no idea if the general run of
these hybrids work on Kaf mount cameras without jamming but I do have a
CPC 2x marked KAR which includes both the Pentax and Richo pins which
doesn't have any problem getting stuck on Pentax K-Fa mount cameras, not
surprising really as CPC is a Pentax produced product, but then again it
doesn't actually work in any of the "A" modes on any of my Pentax
cameras either.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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