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Old Pentax lens compatability

Started Mar 9, 2016 | Questions thread
Futax Senior Member • Posts: 1,353
Re: Old Pentax lens compatability

It's one of the many attractions of Pentax DSLRs - they work well with legacy lenses, especially given that SR will be just as effective as with modern lenses.

Note that accurate manual focusing using the viewfinder is entirely possible nowadays, thanks to the quality of the pentaprism viewfinders and focusing screens which appear to optimised for just that - focusing.  Unlike most other cameras, whose screens are optimised for brightness and depth of field, in order to give a clearer image.  And most entry-level cameras other than Pentax have pentamirror viewfinders, which are vastly inferior anyway.

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