Can I add my one moan regarding the K10. Why is it not possible and done to show focus confirmation also on the top display or back screen.
With close up and macro work, peering through the eye piece whilst twiddling the focus action makes hard work.
It is even more frustrating when using a focus rail. Once the shot is composed, taking your eye from the eyepiece to check focus confirmation would be a huge advantage.
Can it be done? Has it been done? Am I alone in this?
Thoramay.

It is the 5 and M42. The 50mm is the Pentagon. Have risked £30. Is it worth getting a M42 adaptor to try the lens out before putting on the dreaded E.Bay?

Thamks again for your advice.

Regards thoramay.

Thanks John and Hefty. I am an old softy and want to help this widow. I would rather be caught myself than make on her late husbands memory and so your info is a great help. Will visit in the morning and see what is there. From your comments do I gather that the lens will be M42?

regards thoramay.

Can someone kindly help me to help an old widowed lady trying to find a home for her late husbands practica camera, plus practica 50mm lens. Also a Sirus 135 macro lens.
There is also an extension tube marked for Pentax
I know nothing of this equipment. Being the Pentax man at our camera club I have been chosen to do the research.
Any info with possible value would help

regards thoramay.

Thanks Guys. Ordered.
Have never mastered the live view or digital preview. I am so used to using the viewfinder, and stuck in my ways, that I have not ventured farther, Pathetic, I know.
Maybe a short tuition from the enlightened might move me. LOL
Thanks again. Thoramay.

Thanks for all your good info. Living on an Island is limiting in that our camera shops, although very good and personal, do not have such a comprehensive range or knowledge of such specialised equipment. I do a lot of close and macro work. Also have the 500 mirror lens and the 400-600 mirror pentax lens. Hope that the focusing rail will allow better focusing with these two lens
I understand the comment about restriction with the camera eyepiece. Presumably, the movement on the rail will be small enough to keep the camera at the back end.
Will take your good advice and invest in the manfrotto.
regards Thoramay.

Thanks Hefty. One comment made on another forum was that the placement of the camera on this rail interferred with using the camera eyepiece. This kinda put me off a bit This is obviously not your experience. I have the monfrotto 486 tripod. Do I need another quick release plate for this rail? Do you have a site that I can access to get details, please?
regards Thoramay.

The only model I have seen are those on E.Bay available from the far east, mostly with a four way action, which I do not want. I believe that the monfrotto one is a 454 or something like that. The problem for me is that there is little info available on the Web except for the very expensive one, with is way too expensive.
I have been on other forums, but again, with little info and no pictures.
I have been on SRS, Bristol cameras, LCE and others but with no luck. I am sure that these rails are available but with not much take up I guess they do not list them on the Web.
Sorry if I seem vague but it is not that I have not researched, I simply am getting no info and wondered if someone into macro has experience to share.
regards thoramay.

Struggling in my usual way to gain info on focusing rails. The monfrotto would seem the obvious choice to match up with my tripod but cannot source a supply. I have also seen negative comments about ability to use the eye piece with this model. I would like comments and advice please and any offer if there is a macro rail not now needed. I would prefer a forward/back action rather than the four way model which is readily available.
regards Thoramay.

I have the Pentax refconverter-m. It does not work for me with my bifocal glasses. It cost me £70 a way back off the forum. There are cheaper options but if anyone wanted to stay Pentax I would be open to offers. It is in the original box and leather?? pouch.
regards Thoramay.