mr Ist that sounds a pretty mamoth setup! unfortunately the picture isn't showing at the moment neat idea with the focusing, it took me AGES to get mine even as close as it is.

my 35mm zeiss was selotaped to the inside of the tamron's lens hood. Good to get the old ingenuity going from time to time isn't it?

edit: picture has apeared now, nice one

ok, I had a go.

first I'd like to say MAN is this a difficult challenge. All in good fun!

I don't have any extension tubes, so instead I have mounted the following

Tamron 90mm SP Macro + 3 2x converters (2x Tamron SP flat field ones and a Tokina RMC) with a Zeiss Flektogon 35mm reversed at the front of it all.

It's a bit dark with all those converters, so I used a desk lamp directed straight at the penny to give me enough light to focus by and then fired a flashgun manually during a 2 second exposure to provide the actual light in hope of reducing noise by keeping the exposure short and the ISO low.

This is the best I have managed

That is a lot of macro.

I detect a challenge!

I thought the 30 and 60 were both OK with KA onwards but no good with anything with no A position?

Certainly my MZ-50 used to fire with non-A lenses, it just always metered as if the lens was wide open. This made it fine with Mirror lenses but a pain with anything else. MZ-30 and 60 refuse to fire without contacts

Hoofer, it will fire on the DL2 and work fine. If you have trouble getting it to work, PM me and I'll walk you through the custom settings. I used to have a 500mm CAT which I used on my DL2 no problems at all.

yup unfortunately MZ30 and MZ60 are totally incompatible with non-A lenses. They wont even fire with a non-A lens mounted.

It will work perfectly on your MZ-3 and DL2, provided the custom function to allow shutter firing when not in the A position is set on the DL2.

even my lowly DL2 has got wet on occasion and never been bothered by it. The K10D is sealed, it was born for today!

without SR they certainly aren't

I really hope they put a manual override into the next firmware update, the teleconverter SR issue is really going to annoy me.

I just picked up a Kiron Macro lens from Ebay

Great thinks I, the Kiron 105 is legendary.

Indeed the optics are stunning, but the focus doesn't work properly It sticks at 1:1.2 and 1:10 so you can't get all the way to either end of the range

Does anyone know of a repair shop which would be able to do anything for it at a reasonable price? It's a lovely lens and it's KA fit so it actually works properly with the K10D.

most of them are, its just IE that breaks that standard

damn non W3C complient browsers.