Sears bought lenses and re-branded them. They never made them. Many companies made lenses with Pentax M42 thread mount, and many many rebranded them. Fewer made lenses with Pentax K-mount, but there are enough of those anyway.
If you want top notch lenses, stick with Pentax brand and SMC coatings. Some of the Practika and Zeiss lenses made with Pentax M42 thread mount are excellent too. Some others are ok. I wouldn't waste much time on most of the third party lenses, although some of the Vivitar Series One are very nice. Stay away from Ricoh "PK-R" mount lenses (often Chinon brand, also Soligor, Kiron, Tamron and Vivitar) for Pentax AF cameras. There is a mount incompatibility that can cause the lens to become stuck on the body. Godfrey On Sep 6, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Rebekah wrote: > Honestly, I'm looking at a site that's alternative to Ebay and there's > lenses here with names I'm unsure of...Yashica, Hanimar, Chinon, > Rokinon, Soligor, Tokina, Sears - what camera did Sears make lenses > for? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
