If no 'A' position on the lens, then in order to get a 'properly' exposed picture automatically using the light meter in the camera you'd have to do stop-down metering, which only means that you press the AE-L button on the back of the camera before taking a picture.įor the camera, lift up the rewind lever and rewind it to rewind whatever film might be in there. If the lens has an 'A' (auto) position on the aperture ring, the only thing they will be missing is autofocus. When put on a cropped sensor camera (like the Pentax K-P), they will make more narrow field of view pictures than if put on a full frame Pentax camera like the Pentax K-1. It could be worth a couple of hundred if not a bit more.Īlthough all these lenses are manual focus lenses, they will all work on a modern Pentax dSLR camera. You should get a lot of good input there. It comes with several lenses (Pentax and Vivitar), a Takumar-A 2x teleconverter, a Tamaron 2x teleconverter, over a dozen filters, a Pentax motor dive and even four rolls of MAX 400 color film (only three shown).īecause I'm so unfamiliar with the equipment, I'm quite frankly afraid to try to test the slightest feature.Ĭan anyone help me understand if it's worth to pay to have them checked out? The closest camera store is over an hour away.įor the Pentax gear, why not ask on the Pentax forum. I can't even figure how to get the lens off the Pentax super program, or even open the back. I includes a very heavy lens and a some sort of hot shoe.

The Foton is so unusual, I don't even know how to test it.

I hope it's the right forum to post this question.Ī friend gave us her father's old camera equipment including a Bell & Howell Foton w/ 2' f/2 Cooke Amotal Anastigmat and a Pentax super program.

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