Topic: My new camera and lens.
I have been looking for a camera for the last few months (started looking at a Ricoh GRD first then found this forum and decided to get a a pentax and some manual focus lenses). So I finally got the camera two days ago (a k100d) for $350 USD. I bought the body only because I also purchased a planar 1.7/50 for $70 from the bay about a month back. The register difference between contax and pentax is about .05mm, so I took apart the mount of the lens(which was a pain) and adjusted the mount to sit about .05-1mm from the back of the lens (the bayonet itself is to close to even be able to fit behind the k mount so I had to raise it up and place a strip of insulated copper wire underneath it). Now the lens is able to fit into the camera (it fits snug and the bayonet itself does not lock but it is secure in the camera and does not catch itself on anything inside the the camera). Now I need to get a hole drilled so i can lock it into the mount and it should fit as good as a C/Y bayonet can fit into a k mount (which should be good enough).

a flower at the botanical gardens in Lund

100% crop of the above

my backpack and bike

fellow corridor mate
I'm a little short of infinity so I need to continue modifying the lens, but I am very pleased with the quality I am getting from this setup. Also IS and the focus confirmation in the camera work with the lens.









