Hi Eric, it's certainly an omission. As with center-weighted, spot
meter is independent of the lens type, as it doesn't have to know
what the maximum aperture is.
I can confirm that spot meter works on MZ-5N even with screw mount
lenses. There's absolutely no reason for Pentax to drop this.
Servus, Alin
Eric wrote:
EL> I was looking at a copy of Peterson's Photographic magazine and they had a
EL> few pages on the MZ-S camera. The reviewer stated that with A, F, and FA
EL> lens all metering modes were available (spot, center-weighted, and
EL> multi-segment), but with pre-A series lenses only center-weighted metering
EL> was available. Can anyone verify if this is true or false? I have been
EL> assuming the spot meter would be available with any lens type. Isn't the
EL> spot meter available for any lens type on a (MZ)ZX-5n? I hope this was just
EL> an error in the article.
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