You seem <iretrevably> stuck in the past. In any event, nobody is saying it is a better way of operating, clearly full K/M support wouldd be welcomed by most pentax users who have these lenses and wish to use them. But given that is not going to happen, the support offered at present is pretty dam good.
A. On 18/9/04 4:59 pm, "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that is NOT the way AE has worked for the last 30 years at pentax. > It has always been continuous, on the fly, and with the aperure > wide open. Stop down method is generally inferior because it > unnessacarily lowers the sensitivity of meter. And having to take > a reading before every exposure and after every aperture setting > change is much slower than AE on the fly. That's why it hasn't > been done this way, its an inferior way to do it compared to > sensing the aperture setting and doing everthing wide open and > on the fly. > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > From: Antonio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 10:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: istDs - what a great camera! > > > Well, in my book if the camera takes a stop down reading then it IS > taking apeture into account. All I am concerned with is does the camera > respond to changes I make manually to the apeture setting on the lens? > Answer = Yes. And does it change the shutter speed accordingly? Answer = > Yes. And does it dow this with old K and M mount lenses? Answer = Yes. > Basically it provides AE operation via the green button. Not open > apeture reading, which I agree would be nice, but good enough all the > same given these lenses are nearly 30 years old in some cases. Not to > mention the screw mounts. > > A. > > > > > On 18/9/04 3:24 pm, "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your understanding is wrong. The camera is >> forced to taking a stop down reading because >> it doesn't have a clue what the K/M lens shooting aperture >> is going to be because it ignores the K/M aperture >> cam. >> >> JCO >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Antonio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:59 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: istDs - what a great camera! >> >> >> JCO, my understanding is that it does take the apeture into account >> and set the shutter acordingly. >> >> A. >> >> On 18/9/04 2:43 pm, "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> But to say that ignoring >>> the aperure setting of the K/M lenses doesn't mattter >>> (and never has) makes very little sense. >> >
