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Ruduction to £715 inc UKP

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Comment by Mike-P posted on FS: Sigma 180mm f3.5 DG EX IF Macro at 23/11/2018 - 13:37

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I bought an adapter to use my PKA & DA lenses on my Canon M5 and they work really well. The only niggle I have (and if I were honest it doesn't just niggle me but drives me up the wall) is that the lenses are upside down for some reason.

Bloody annoying it is.

Comment by Mike-P posted on The lenses Live on at 21/11/2018 - 13:31

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What's Facebook?

Comment by Mike-P posted on K1 on Facebook Market place at 21/11/2018 - 11:12

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I'm at work atm but if someone else doesn't then I will when I get home this afternoon.

Comment by Mike-P posted on IRIX 150mm macro lens testers wanted at 19/11/2018 - 07:08

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Kim C wrote:

I thought I had found a set of Aico ones with the electric pins. I was hoping they would work like the Pentax 2x-s converter but without the lens. Unfortunately not.

So still looking.
Just in case you didn't know ... 99% of the Pentax fit tubes need a bit of the black paint scratched off near the contacts to make them work correctly ... have you done this with the Aico ones?

Comment by Mike-P posted on IRIX 150mm macro lens testers wanted at 18/11/2018 - 22:49

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Ah with the A setting do you mean contacts?

In which case I have a set somewhere.

Kim C wrote:
HarisF1 wrote:
Are there any tubes with 'A' settings available? Should be!
Wish I could find some.
Ask Lenny, he always seems to have a cupboard full

Comment by Mike-P posted on IRIX 150mm macro lens testers wanted at 18/11/2018 - 21:08

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Never seen tubes with an A setting.

My 180mm Sigma macro has an aperture ring Derek ...

Comment by Mike-P posted on IRIX 150mm macro lens testers wanted at 18/11/2018 - 20:57

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Absolutely brilliant lens on both FF and crop bodies. Bargain at this price as well.

If you can't run to the 150-450mm then this is the next best thing ... Better in some respects.

Comment by Mike-P posted on Sigma APO 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Pentax fit at 17/11/2018 - 10:25

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As far as I know there have been very very few problems with the 60-250mm SDM wise. Same can be said for the 55mm, 200mm and 300mm. The 16-50mm and 50-135mm (and to some extent the 17-70mm) are another matter though.

Comment by Mike-P posted on Rumoured 70-200mm f4 at 16/11/2018 - 11:57

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ilovesaabs wrote:
DA*60-250 f4 has one...

Could Pentax not re-engineer the internals of this lens, remove the baffle and update the focussing system to become a D-FA 60-250 f4? All K-mount fans would rejoice.
As much as I loved my 60-250mm f/4 I recently sold it as it wasn't getting any use with the K-1 (however I have started looking for another)

Saying that the one thing a 70-200mm f/4 would hopefully have over the 60-250mm is internal zoom.

Kim C wrote:
There is also the SDM issue.
What SDM issue?

Comment by Mike-P posted on Rumoured 70-200mm f4 at 16/11/2018 - 11:27

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