Originally posted by jfegan12
I was given a quantaray 70-210mm lens from a friend. Is there an adaptor that i can buy to connect this to my Kx? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm a newbie at this.
Thanks,
Jeff
Some info on Quantaray - Quantaray is Ritz Camera's store brand. In general, Ritz rebadges products made by other manufacturers under the Quantaray brand. For example, the Quantaray 70-300 available in 2007 was a rebadged Tamron 70-300 lens. In other years it has been a Sigma 70-300. Most Quantaray flash units are rebadged Promaster units. Quantaray tripods appear to be Sunpaks.
When you have a third-party lens (Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, etc) you need to determine which mount the lens is meant for. If it's K-mount, it'll attach without any troubles. If it's not K-mount - You'll need a lens mount adapter, but in many cases a lens can't be adapted to K-mount without either corrective optics or giving up infinity focus. Also you'll likely lose aperture control with any mount adapters.
Some posters above improperly assumed that it was a K-mount Quantaray lens (which is possible - I have a K-mount Quantaray 70-300, the aforementioned rebadged Tamron), in your case it was a false assumption.