> > Aperture is indeed transmitted digitally to the camera by the F/FA > > lenses, so use of aperture set on the lens would have been perfectly > > possible with the *istd. But P deliberately invalidated this > > functionality through software, as it is forcing its users to abandon > > the aperture ring and sets the premise for a complete switch to the > > FAJ line.
Who at Pentax informed you that they deliberately invalidated this function? Bill