Hello,
I recently bought what was advertised as a genuine Pentax K to M42 adapter to mount my M42 Russian lenses on my Pentax K1000. However, when the adapter arrived it was obvious that it was missing the spring described in this instruction sheet:
http://www.mosphotos.com/PentaxScrewmountLensAdapter.html
The adapter looks like this:
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7127/dscf4465zx.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6962/dscf4467c.jpg
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1719/dscf4468.jpg
This is the section where the spring would normally be. I've never seen a genuine adapter before but to my untrained eye it looks as if someone has forcibly removed the spring with a pair of pliers as there is a ragged edge where I assume the spring would be. If this is the case, can someone confirm whether this adapter would be safe to use, and second, would I be able to remove it once inserted? (I'm too scared of damaging my precious and well-loved camera and lenses).
From what I've read around on the web it appears that some people remove the spring so that they can mount the adapter directly on the lens rather than on the canera body. The drawback of this is that in this way the lens doesn't lock in place. Would it be safe to use it this way?
I recently bought what was advertised as a genuine Pentax K to M42 adapter to mount my M42 Russian lenses on my Pentax K1000. However, when the adapter arrived it was obvious that it was missing the spring described in this instruction sheet:
http://www.mosphotos.com/PentaxScrewmountLensAdapter.html
The adapter looks like this:
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7127/dscf4465zx.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6962/dscf4467c.jpg
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1719/dscf4468.jpg
This is the section where the spring would normally be. I've never seen a genuine adapter before but to my untrained eye it looks as if someone has forcibly removed the spring with a pair of pliers as there is a ragged edge where I assume the spring would be. If this is the case, can someone confirm whether this adapter would be safe to use, and second, would I be able to remove it once inserted? (I'm too scared of damaging my precious and well-loved camera and lenses).
From what I've read around on the web it appears that some people remove the spring so that they can mount the adapter directly on the lens rather than on the canera body. The drawback of this is that in this way the lens doesn't lock in place. Would it be safe to use it this way?
