Originally posted by dgaies It's definitely been used to describe the mounts of lenses without screw drives. As an example, the first line of the specs of the DA*55 under the line "Lens Mount" (
link).
I too hope I am excessively paranoid, but applying KAF3 to a camera body
is nonsense. KAF2 says it all on a body. To be KAF it needs a screw drive,
and to be a KAF2 it needs the 2 internal contact points, it would make
more sense to describe a driveshaftless body as a "K2" mount. or a 'KA2' mount
as the reference has traditionally been a short hand of the features. removing
the driveshaft would be dropping the F. which got into the acronymn when the driveshaft was added to support the F series autofocus lenses.
Pentax never owned up to a new mount name when they 'crippled' the K mount.
the terminology I find bothersome.... as I recall what happened to the TTL
flash support.--- huh! What's that?