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> reasonable (although not great) compatibility with older lenses All Pentax cameras from 1975-on have used the Pentax K-Mount[0], which means that in (almost)
by pietroglyph 8y ago
> reasonable (although not great) compatibility with older lenses
All Pentax cameras from 1975-on have used the Pentax K-Mount[0], which means that in (almost) all cases you can use most of the lenses made in the last 43 years. I would call that pretty good compatibility.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_K-mount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_K-mount
- Bud 8y agoPretty mediocre, really. The Nikon F-mount dates back to 1959. :)
- paulmd 8y agoI'm specifically referring to the crippled K_af2 mount, which does away with the feelers necessary to read out the aperture setting on older lenses (approximately pre-90s). The lenses mount, but you need to go into a menu on the camera body each time you adjust the aperture to tell it how much the lens is going to stop down. I think it's perfectly fair to ding some usability points for that.