The real trick is for Pentax, or some other camera maker, to make a digital slr that works with all of the K, M, A lenses and not have to fool with all these techniques to get the older lenses to work correctly. For $1600 bucks the *istD should have been able to do this. Jim A.
> From: Arnold Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:39:42 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: *ist and K/M lenses > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 05:34:55 -0400 > > The *ist I played with last weekend along with the *ist D behaved just > like the *ist D with K/M lenses: > Av mode: wide open only, correctly metered; > Manual mode: no metering but lens stops down to selected value. > The trick to unlock the lens in AV mode to have it stop down worked, too. > > Arnold >
