I have a pentax slr I bought 4 years ago for £199. I also bought a zoom lens for £190. I’m now thinking of going digital but want to know if the lenses are interchangeable
Yes you can. Any Pentax KA or KAF mount lens will fit on either a samsung or pentax digital body. If the lens has a manual aperture ring you may need to set this to the ‘A’ postion to get full aperture/TTL communication between the lens and body.
You shall however experience a conversion factor of approx 1.5x, so that a lens which has a 35mm focal length of say 100mm-300mm will now have a focal length of approx 150mm-450mm. Great for telephoto shots, not so good for keeping the wide angles.
Fortunately the pentax kits often include an 18mm-55 lens which works out at a good everyday range of 28mm-90mm, so your big tele zoom would be a good compliment to this kit.
If in doubt take your lens into a camera shop and ask to try it out. Many retailers now do internet price matching, so keep the little guy going, don’t just buy purely on price, buy on service too.
there are three pentax kits, the 6MP k100d & k110d (the difference being one has anti-shake, handy for your big zoom lens, there is only a small price premium for this very useful function) and the 10MP k10d.
This camera is quite a bit more money than the first two (but no more than comparible cameras from canon or nikon) but has the best colour depth of any digital SLR at any price on the market.
Buy buying into this system you have the clever option of still using film and digital. Please note however that although the pentax 18-55mm lens will mechanically fit on your film body, there will be very pronounced vignetting (darkening of the corners)
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* HDMI port plays back beautiful high resolution images and video on HDTVs A perfect blend of digital compact and SLR technology including powerful automatic operation or creative manual and priority modes
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* Powerful, lightweight Lithium-Ion battery and improved power efficiency.
I am thinking of upgrading from a 35 mm SLR to a digital SLR. I have really good lenses.(Regular which came with the Pentax , Macro and Zoom I bought , they are Sigma lenses.) I have a pentax camera and Sigma lenses. Which are working fine together.
Would the lenses I have been using fit on any digital SLR camera or do the digital cameras require different lenses. someone kind of told me that every digital camera has a differnt mount for lenses. I am asking here because I need to hear it from another source. Thanks
To my knowledge, every Pentax K-mount lens fits every Pentax K-mount camera ever made. The Pentax mount is the most backward compatible in history, even more so than the often highly acclaimed Nikon F mount.
If your lenses are older Pentax screw mount lenses, though, you’ll need to purchase an inexpensive K-mount to M42 adapter. Since the K-mount was designed with this adapter in mind, there is no loss of performance or infinity focus as with many other lens mount adapters. You do, however, lose full aperture metering.
It goes without saying, though, that no manual focus lens will autofocus even on an autofocus camera, although you probably knew this. I do understand, though, that Pentax made a teleconverter than at least permits some degree of autofocusing even with manual focus lenses.
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Is there an adapter that will let me use the Canon AF lenses on the Pentax digital? It is ok if they have to be manual focus afterward, as I usually use it anyway. If not, is there a 2x converter for the Pentax? It says DA on the lens. thanks.
No.
It is always important to research this before spending any money.
For SLR’s and DSLR’s
Canon = Canon
Nikon = Nikon
Pentax = Pentax
Fujifilm = NIkon
Kodak = Nikon or Canon depending upon the model number
Olympus = Olympus
Kenko makes a MC7 2X AF TELE-CONVERTER F/PENTAX for just over $100
The Pentax 2x Teleconverter is about $550 and here is a link to more information.
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Pentax KAF mount is the current mount.
KAF2, KAF and KA mount lenses – fully compatible
K-mount lenses – usable with restrictions
S-mount lenses – usable with adapter and restrictions
67/645 lenses – usable with adapter and restrictions
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