On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:21:52PM -0500, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:28:02PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:02:32PM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: > > Yes. It's a great lens, and a steal at that price - I paid twice that > for a lens in KEH BGN condition (with the TCs) around 15 years ago. > > The only reason I got rid of it was that I picked up a Pentax A* 300/2.8 > (plus the Pentax TCs). My PZ-1p had a dodgy "A" pin connection, and every > now and then it would intermittently not see the signal from the Tamron KA > adapter. That meant I ended up with the occasional shot at f/32 (which is > what the camera interprets the lens as being set to on the "A" position).
Signal? There are adaptall adapters that work with the auto aperture? All of mine are simple K mount. This discussion may have just cost me some money. > > Optically I don't think the A* is significantly better than the Tamron > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
