In the early days lenses such as the 85mm were old designs by makers such as Nikon that Samyang produced under licence.

Another two lenses

What's more important for a lens is that it's properly centred. Very few are. Pentax seem poor in this regard.

Example look at the left/right of the boat shot here.....

https://www.pentaxuser.com/review/pentax-smc-p-da-12-24mm-f-4-0-ed-al-lens-revie...

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Also bear in mind that they have to have Kit Lenses available for a FF launch and I don't think they have any apart from the FA 50mm f/1.4.

If someone goes into a shop looking for a FF + std zoom they aren't going to be interested in Body Only.

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I still can't see the point in bringing out a FF.... this year at least. The K-5ii's are being sold off cheap along with the K-50. The K-3 has dropped in price. Surely the next release has to be at least two APS-C cameras.

The FF won't sell in big numbers, but it could attract buyers to APS-C if they have any to sell.

Big mistake already with the FF bringing out a 'Me Too' 70-200mm f/2.8 the same as everyone else and also covered by old lenses and 3rd party.

A FF + say 55-210mm f/2.8 might have just have swayed it with buyers comparing Pentax to Canikon + 70-210mm.

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Sounds like a lens from the 70's. I would have thought they would have at least made it cover the standard 50mm lens say 55-210mm....... 70-200mm isn't something you expect from 2015.

I can imagine that it will be very expensive. The 80-200mm f/2.8 was £2k in the 80's.

Edit RH has a link to the new HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm F4.5-5.6

Looks like they've gone back to Green Rings on the lenses.

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It's unlikely that you will be able to do slide copying with a tube on the camera, Look at Gregs K setup the bellows need to be almost fully closed. You also need a 60-70mm lens.

It is possible to do very high definition slide copies by by taking several small crops and merging them in pano software.

Copying slides is a lot easier with a tube based setup rather than bellows, There's a good article on one of the other forums about it.

For illumination I just use one of these bulbs. Daylight is better, but the cast caused by using warmer bulbs is easily removed.

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If the cap fits!....... Wear it!

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There should be old posts on here about them. I seem to remember a tube being needed to clear the flash/pentaprism overhang.

Gregmoll (member here) posted some stuff about the K bellows such as this.....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregmoll/sets/72157622121204478/

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They are screw M42 thread. Will they fit a DSLR without an extension tube?

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