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On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 07:21 US/Pacific, Anthony Farr wrote:
IMHO the advances in TTL metering are attempts to become as good as quality
hand-held meters. It's also MHO that multi segment metering calculates an
xposure that is correct most of the time but not every time, and the
photographer isn't likely to know just what skew the meter's interpretive
feature has put on the exposure. OTOH a hand-held meter used with
experience and skill gets the correct exposure every time, and its workings
are completely transparent. Centre-weighted averaging TTL is almost as good
as external metering if you use manual exposure or a memory-lock in auto, it
is arguably even better when a very long lens is up front.
TTL metering is for speed of working where that's essential, or convenience
whether to avoid the purchase of an external meter or to carry less gear.
It's a compromise whose price is ultimate accuracy.
It's unreasonable to expect full backwards compatability from a CHEAP camera
like the *ist, which is chock-full of bells and whistles for first time 35mm
SLR users or those prepared to accept limitations when using obsolete
lenses. At least you'd be able to use those lenses. Good luck fitting
old-mount Canon or Minolta lenses to the current bodies of those brands.
Pentax has cameras in its current lineup for old lens owners, and most
likely will have suitable future offerings when the higher level *ists (or
the mythic "New LX") come out.
regards, Anthony Farr
----- Original Message ----- From: "Artur Ledóchowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(snip)Buying an external meter only to be able to work with the plain K-mountnew,
lenses in the M mode of the *ist makes no sense to me. The camera has aadvanced, 16-segment matrix and it's IMHO better to get rid of such lenses
and get the KA-mount ones to be able to use it.
One thing I'm sure is that the *ist is not the camera for me - I need full
backward compatibility...
Regards
Artur
