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prandi · Oct 23, 2007, 1:24 PM

hello guyz!!!i am planning to buy a Pentax K100D this december,with the kit lens and Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 APO DG Macro .a friend of mine gave his Minolta srT303b for use ,it has 50mm f/1.7 MC Rokkor lens on it,i wanted to know if i can use it on the k100d,,i am ready to focus manually,,thanx in advance!!!

JimC · Oct 24, 2007, 8:25 AM

No. It's a different lens mount.

You might be able to find an adapter to mount it. But, you might degrade the image quality and/or you may not be able to focus to infinity with some adapters unless they have built in optical elements acting as a Teleconverter.

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Oct 23, 2007, 1:24 PM	#1
prandi Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	hello guyz!!!i am planning to buy a Pentax K100D this december,with the kit lens and Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 APO DG Macro .a friend of mine gave his Minolta srT303b for use ,it has 50mm f/1.7 MC Rokkor lens on it,i wanted to know if i can use it on the k100d,,i am ready to focus manually,,thanx in advance!!!

Oct 24, 2007, 8:25 AM	#2
JimC Administrator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Savannah, GA (USA) Posts: 22,378	No. It's a different lens mount. You might be able to find an adapter to mount it. But, you might degrade the image quality and/or you may not be able to focus to infinity with some adapters unless they have built in optical elements acting as a Teleconverter.