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We should be pleased that Pentax have maintained as much backwards compatibility as they have. We can still use, without any disadvantage in use, lenses from the last forty years or so. We can use manually lenses going back almost sixty years. That's pretty good in my book.

Comment by johnriley posted on lens compatability with full frame at 12/02/2016 - 19:50

September 1976 brought a new camera to test, plus two rather special new lenses.

Following on in December a new advert was launched.

Also from December 1976 is the Photokina report, revealing the MX and ME and also a mass of new lenses.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax Advertising - the 1970s at 11/02/2016 - 23:20

The rumour mill is working overtime!

Pentax already have the FA-J 18-35mm full frame lens, noy currently available but I guess the basic design is there and would just need tweaking.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax FF rumoured announcement on 18th Feb...price rumoured to be about... at 11/02/2016 - 22:46

The new models and the bayonet mount arrived with a huge splash, and by March 1976 advertisers were listing the full range of bayonet lenses, from 15mm to 1000mm. Whether or not they were all available from stock is something else, because in the 1970s shops were notrious for advertising kit they didn't have. Sometimes we could wait weeks or months for delivery. It was not the instant world of today.

So, from March 1976 the advertising also was under way.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax Advertising - the 1970s at 11/02/2016 - 07:47

The light baffle is there as a sort of rear element lens hood, preventing reflections degrading the image. I wouldn't pay hundreds of pounds for a lens and then start pulling it apart.

Comment by johnriley posted on lens compatability with full frame at 11/02/2016 - 07:21

F series lenses were FF. Then came FA, also FF. D-FA are digital lenses that are also FF. FA-J are FF, without aperture rings.

Only DA lenses are APS-C format, although some of these may extend to FF. It will be interesting to see how the K-1 sees them, as FF or switching itself to crop mode.

Comment by johnriley posted on lens compatability with full frame at 10/02/2016 - 07:48

This continued throughout 1974 and 1975, with one page ads covering one model. usually the Spotmatic F or the ES II. Then, in November 1975 there was a surprise as Pentax introduced the K mount. There was no need for adverts in November 1975 as PT did this handsome 5 page test.

That's one of things that I liked about that era of Photo Technique. It was young, brash and very thorough.

Comment by johnriley posted on Pentax Advertising - the 1970s at 09/02/2016 - 19:39

SRB Griturn probably have an adapter. Why not give them a call, they can make almost anything.

Comment by johnriley posted on 1950's Leica Summarit 50mm 1.5 screw mount lens to Pentax DSLR K-mount adapter at 09/02/2016 - 19:11

Given that a poll only allows one answer you need a simpler poll!

The *istDS was a lovely camera, but pitifully slow compared to what we have today. That screen is also tiny.

Comment by johnriley posted on Survey of Pentax istD series cameras at 09/02/2016 - 14:14

One image deleted, not dated February 2016. Please remember the rules for the monthly competition, shots must be new ones shot this month.

Comment by johnriley posted on Monthly Competition #44 - Street Furniture Competition at 09/02/2016 - 10:31

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