Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-14-2009, 10:39 AM
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Thanks one and all...very much appreciated.
Ed
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-14-2009, 05:31 AM
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Hi All, I'm sure this has been done to death here and elsewhere, but in my defence I've looked & looked & not found what I'm after, so I thought I'd ask the question here. A million apologies if it's been covered already (in which case a link to the topic would be greatly appreciated).
Anyway, here's the deal: I'm a very competent, but 100% analogue photographer and own a couple of Pentax SLRs with a variety of old standard K-mount primes. The world of DSLRs is completely beyond my experience. A friend of mine owns a K100D & is interested in trying out some of my lenses. We understand there are certain restrictions around using them with the K100D & are happy with that. What we can't seem to do is actually take a photo with her camera once we have attached a K-mount lens.
I see a lot of stuff online about how you have to set the camera to 'M' mode - which we've done - but that seems to be it. When we try that the camera simply doesn't fire. We've tried a couple of different lenses & had the same result.
I'm guessing there's some setting or other that needs to be set via the LCD screen on the back of the camera that we're missing. I read somewhere about having to manually set the aperture or something...is this the missing piece? It would be great if someone here could knock up a step-by-step on how to get old K-mounts working with a K100D.
OK, thanks in advance. All comments much appreciated.
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