Hi Chuck, All of your lenses will work on a Pentax digital. When using the takumar lenses, you'll have to shoot in manual mode and set the aperture on the lens. With a push of a button, the camera will then set the shutter speed. The field of view that your lenses produce will change. The 28-105 will have approximately the same fov as a 42-157. The kit lens is at least as good as the 28-105. It's not bad at all. Some of the other new Pentax wides, like the DA 14/2.8, the DA 16-45/4 and the DA 12-24/4 are very good glass. Go Pentax digital and enjoy. But you might want to wait for the K10 with 10 megapixels and in-camera image stability correction. It's going to be a nice piece. Paul On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:25 PM, chuck wrote:
> I would like to move toward digital for a number of > reasons, mostly the ability to take lots of shots > and losing the baddies without "wasting" film. > > But, I've got a ton of old Pentax glass, mostly old > screwmount Takumars, but also some more recent AF > zooms for my ZX-5N. > > So I went out today to look at am IST DS (or maybe a > DL??) at the local camera shop just to see and feel > the camera. I liked the feel, and might adapt to all > the controls, but the whole lens thing has me stumped. > > I believe (but the salesman was not sure) that I can use > all my old glass (screwmount with my adapter). But am not > sure if a) there will be any metering at all, or b) whether > I could use an aperture priority setting and set the aperture > manually while the camera sets the exposure. Can y'all > explain what would happen? > > I'm also put off by the focal length conversion. My 28-105 > and 28-300 would become almost a normal to tele lens with > no wide angle at all. But the kit lens (18-55 I think) looks > like junk and is not much in the tele department either. So then > I'm back to carrying several lenses which can be a royal pain > under some circs. How do y'all handle this? > > thanks > chuck > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
