Identification (if he can take a decent picture of the mount) http://www.kehblog.com/2011/12/lens-mount-guide-part-1.html http://www.kehblog.com/2011/12/lens-mount-guide-part-2.html http://www.kehblog.com/2011/12/lens-mount-guide-part-3.html
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks JOhn... that was what I wondered. I'd have no way to test it before > selling unless I could put it on one of my bodies, or pay to have it tested > at Photo-tech. > > ann > > > On 7/19/2013 14:49, John Francis wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:36:55PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> On 7/19/2013 12:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> the friend whose wedding I'm shooting ended up acquiring a Tokina 28-210 >>>> zoom which he intentds to give me... He knows nothing about such things >>>> , and is away from home now, but it is a bayonet mount and the rear >>>> element had a red dot on it. What I don't remember is if Pentax >>>> is the only SLR with clue to positioning the lens to body for mounting >>>> or are there several? >>>> >>>> I didn't see it, this was me asking questions over phone but I figured >>>> Bayonet mount, good zoom - worth checking out more anyway. >>>> >>>> ann >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Every K-mount Tokina lens I've had, the red dot on the rear flange >>> was in the right place. >> >> >> That's not the question Ann had, though. >> >> My Olympus 4/3 lenses have a bayonet mount, and a red dot for positioning. >> >> I would not be at all surprised to find that there are other systems that >> also have red dots, so even though the Tokina 28-810 lens has a bayonet >> mount and a red dot there is no guarantee that it is, in fact, a K-mount. >> >> > > -- > 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. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
