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03-03-2013, 08:41 PM   #1
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What mount is this?

A friend has asked me to sell a 135mm f2.8 Soligor prime lens that he used previously with his 35mm Pentax SLR (model unknown)

The lens fits on my K-5 but there is no mechanical aperture interconnection. Is this the most basic original K mount or something else? I just want to describe it correctly when it is put it up for sale

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It looks to be a K-mount, but I suspect that it has a preset aperture mechanism (a non-auto lens in the older sense of the term). In which case there should be an aperture ring and also a second stop-down ring or switch. This type of arrangement used to be fairly common. Do you have other pictures of the lens?


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I'm betting it is an interchangeable mount lens, called a T mount and it appears to have a K mount adapter on it.
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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
It looks to be a K-mount, but I suspect that it has a preset aperture mechanism (a non-auto lens in the older sense of the term). In which case there should be an aperture ring and also a second stop-down ring or switch. This type of arrangement used to be fairly common. Do you have other pictures of the lens?
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Additional photos of the lens are shown below. There is a second stop down ring that operates between the set f stop and full aperture - I assume so you could use full aperture for focussing (?) then I assume you had to remember to shift it back again before you took the photo (?)

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I'm betting it is an interchangeable mount lens, called a T mount and it appears to have a K mount adapter on it.
Can you tell from the above photos if there is an adaptor on the lens? Nothing seems easily removable to me... there is a knurled ring at the base of the lens that is locked in place with 3 grub screws...
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Well, there you have it. The lens is T-mount (will accept many different adapters for different cameras) and it does have a pre-set aperture mechanism. The aperture is used in the manner you described. For a description of how the mount works, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-mount


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