> I would imagine quite a few people on the list have used these. How painful > is it? Does that mean stop-down metering?
yes > I have heard that these are not > "lens adapters", but "body adapters", whatever that menas. The adapter sits in the body, temporarily turning your K mount body into a screw mount body. This is different to T-mount and Adaptall lenses where the converter goes onto the end of the lens, temprorarily turning it into a k-mount lens. > Does it make difficult to swap lenses? It makes it annoying if you are swapping from K-mount to screw repeatedly. I have two of these, one genuine Pentax and the other is third-party. The TP one is a very tight fit and twice I have had to unscrew the mount from the camera to get the adapter out. When I bought my SMCT 500f4.5 it had a genuine Pentax converter and that works a lot better even although it looks exactly the same. The tolerances must be just a little more accurate. Anyway, the Pentax one goes on and off with no fuss at all. I think the small amount of annoyance in using stop down metering and the adapter ring is nothing compared to the annoyance in not being able to afford a k-mount version of a particular lens when a screw mount one might be half the price. Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
