Bill, I wouldn't bet against Boz on this one. My KM manual says... pg5 - "CdS meter measurers the average brightness of the ground glass at full aperture, and couples directly to aperture, shutter and film speed settings. and pg22 - "The light meter built into your KM correctly reads the average of the light reflected from the entire scene as seen through the viewfinder - with a little extra importance, or weight, given to what is in the center. Sometimes, however, there is a great difference between the light reflected from the background and the light reflected from the subject. In such a case, to achieve a really good photo, you must compensate..." Contrast this with the write-up from the manual for the K2 (same vintage) camera... pg 5 - "Silicon Photo Diode-activated, aperture-preferred, through-the-lens meter measures central portion of ground glass at full aperture..." Furthermore, the metering cells are different between the KM & K1000 versus the K2 and KX. I don't see how they would be putting a K2 system into a KM, even if it was the last KM ever made! So I would take the seller's comments with some skepticism. The KM is a nice camera, BIG, and a solid alternative/improvement on a K1000. You will have to look really hard to miss the center weighting of the meter. I never noticed this shooting with the camera. Regards, Bob S. Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: << The seller lists it has having spot metering, and Boj's site (http://www.phred.org/pentax/) lists it as full frame. I emailed the seller about this, the reply is included below. So who's right? full frame or spot? And could Pentax have changed from frame to spot at the end of this body's production run? The response from the seller: Subject: Re: Question for seller -- Item #1227752545 Date: at, 7 Apr 2001 10:14:07 -0500 From: "Bill & Donna Lobay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is centerweighted according to my instruction manual . This KM is one of the last ones they made. ---Bill >> - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
