Niklas

Yes, conspiracy theories are nice entertainment, I love them.
And here in the forum we have John to put them to rest swiftly and efficiently But we have to find one first. Has there been one? and have I missed it? Somebody please tell me

Aah, but that wasn't Pentax Community, was it?
Pentaxians are a unique bunch mate. Stick around and you will see what I mean .

Ah, so you got that wrong. Are you sure also then that the spam PM came from this forum? Couldn't it be that you got it on the other forum as well?
Just checking in case you got that one wrong too and sent John on a wild goose chase

Well, you all can see the mood I am in huh? I think I need to go puff some smoke or blow some bubbles before I get on someone's wrong side. Not sure how Danish humour is but if its anything like German then I am fried LOL. Ooops just kidding

So its spam sent through PM, and not on the email addy?
More so to just think why make such a big fuss? Surely we all know its the easiest way to send spam to someone, it doesn't take much to register oneself and then send spam to other members and obviously the administrators are working on it and they usually are pretty good at sorting this out.
I dont see this as a reason for the tone of the first comment, gosh,,,, someone sounds really annoyed huh?

And talking about spam on PM, this, I have never received on this forum, this is really discrimination and I want to complain to the higher authorities. Anyone care to tell me how to please

Catch him now, he is around as I see him replying to some comments just a few seconds ago

Cedric,
There were a few threads around here that a lot was discussed about TCs and the compatibility of them for specific lenses.

A few of our veteran members such as Stefan and others here are very well versed in this matter, its just a question of you getting hold of attention of one of them who knows about this specific TC.
One of the members from this group of well versed people in TCs is Mike-P because he has had a few over the years and has a lot of first hand experience. Get hold of him and he will clarify to you in an instant.

Hi Cedric
yes you can use the Pentax 1.7x Adapter. Put the lens into MF and give it a nudge to bring to close to focus and then let the adapter do the job.

But you get normal AF with it.

If you want SDM then you will need the Tamron 1.4TC.
Just make sure that its the one with 1.4X Pz-AF MC4 written on the TC. This one works with SDM and gives you full SDM function with the lens. I believe that there is another version of this tammy that will not work with SDM.

Lastly, if you want the highest quality then nothing beats the pentax Adapter the first one I mentioned.

Hope that helps.

Ken, thanks

I think stepping into the world of photography has opened up my horizons, fascinating stuff been happening really . And I swear I am not exagerating. I wake up in the mornings with a million ideas cooking in my mind .

Oh and gardening? It has become so much interesting now . By the way, I have figs in the garden that gives figs twice a year, it has been the envy of my neighbourhood , for the past four years it just gives loads of sweet fresh figs , and guess what I have planted and this year I should get some nice fruits from it? nesperas, again sorry if this is not the term known or the correct one, but I saw it here link
Should be getting some this year from the tree I planted a few years ago

"Taking note of the name of the seeds" I wonder if I could get it to grow in a greenhouse. Got plenty of space in the backyard.

Peter, your fault you see? And it all started with the simple correction of the term applied for my image .

By the way, its amazing what one sees or learns to observe when we get immersed into this fantastic field of photography. The number of times that I have looked at things, and never noticed the beauty that it exudes until I start looking through the lens. That's how I came to notice the passion flower that has been growing in my back garden for the past 8 years now. It had to take a Pentax in my hands to finally stop and appreciate it fully .

oh this is bringing back memories Peter and pretty bad ones .
I forgot to mention that between the grapevine and the pasiflora plant I have a rose tree. You can just imagine what I am about to say won't you? LOL. For the branches to reach the grapevine they had to go through the rose tree, and those spikes "ouch".

Peter,
that is interesting indeed. The one I have in the garden just grows wildly and a year ago I chopped it right down to the ground because it had overgrown into my neighbour's garden jumping over the fence, and suddenly back in September I realised that although the main branch I cut didn't grow back but the tentacles that came off it did exactly the same and entangled totally the grapevine that is just a meter from it. Big mistake planting it so close but I had a chap who was helping me plant stuff a few years ago and he just planted it without me noticing. The grapevine gives a lot of fruits every year so I want to keep it safe so again a few weeks ago I just whacked the pasiflora plant again all tentacles down leaving it all fallen to the ground until I decide what finally to do with it. I like the way it spreads as it remains green with leaves all year long. But for the past few weeks its just been there all branches on the ground covering a bit of the border, and today suddenly walking pass by I saw this shiny nice flower off it, definitely the first one.

I am surprised how the one over there in Spain also doesn't give edible fruits, I would have thought that it was just the climate that made it different fruits and this cold region did not produce sweeter and edible ones. So its different strains that they come in then.

I am not sure if the main land in Portugal the plants give edible fruits but the ones that are grown in the Azores are definitely edible and very very sweet. . But again, the climate in Azores is totally different compared to the mainland, hence the pineapples there are grown and they are very popular and export to many places. Mind you though they cultivate in greenhouses and they commonly call it "abacaxi"

Thanks Peter

I stand corrected, "running to correct the titles before it gets embarrassing"

Appreciate your comment and help in correcting this. Hate when I end up typing something wrong or with wrong spelling.
In my defence I tried to translate it literally from portuguese where the native portuguese speaking people raise eyebrows when we translate literally frome english to portuguese . In Portuguese the fruit is called "maracuja" and the flower just "flor de maracuja" Simple huh?

And I notice also from some literature briefly glanced also that even in english the term for the fruit is maracuja