The Pentax K-mount, sometimes referred to as the "PK-mount", is a bayonet lens mount standard for mounting interchangeable photographic lenses to 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. It was created by Pentax in 1975, and has since been used by all Pentax 35 mm and digital SLRs and also the MILC Pentax K-01. A number of other manufacturers have also produced many K-mount lenses and K-mount cameras.
Pentax K1000 without lens, showing the original K mount
Pentax ME F and SMC Pentax-AF 35-70/2.8, the only products using the KF-mount.
Pentax A 50 mm lens displaying the KA-mount
Pentax KAF2 mount (body and lens). 1. alignment marker 2. locking pin 3. lens release button 4. digital lens information contact 5.–10. electrical lens information contacts 11. aperture control lever 12. power contacts 13. screw-drive auto focus drive shaft 14. aperture simulator
A lens mount is an interface – mechanical and often also electrical – between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is a feature of camera systems where the body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the rangefinder camera, single lens reflex type, single lens mirrorless type or any movie camera of 16 mm or higher gauge. Lens mounts are also used to connect optical components in instrumentation that may not involve a camera, such as the modular components used in optical laboratory prototyping which join via C-mount or T-mount elements.
Male mount of Minolta MC-Rokkor 58mm 1:1.4 lens with female lens mount of an Minolta XD-7
A teleconverter attached between a camera and its objective
This lens adapter is a passive adapter designed for mounting a Nikon F mount lens to a Micro Four Thirds camera.