Yes Brian, mine still works as it's supposed to, but I stick to the "mostly useless" statement! With any other MF lens, it's an ME Super with focus confirmation so still handy. I'm surprised that Pentax never made a MF version of that lens. I wonder where they got the optics from?
Chris On 3 Jun 2016 21:42, "Brian Walters" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016, at 05:29 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > Just to add to the just to join, I've got an ME-F and the weird AF > > lens that Pentax produced. Mostly useless, but a good show and tell > > for any PDML gathering. > > > I have one of those too - everything worked last time I tried it but > that was probably about 6-7 years ago. I should fire it up again to > check. > > It's interesting that at a constant f2.8, I believe that lens was the > fastest manual zoom that Pentax produced. I guess something about it > had to be fast because the AF wasn't :-)> > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > > -- 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.
