John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> Pentax DSLR's with M42 lenses (which >>> offer metering only via the green button hack or DoF preview >> Is that true with M42s? I thought that it meters fully in Av mode >> without any user intervention. > > It does. Adam is wrong. > > As has frequently been pointed out here, if you want to use old > lenses with the digital bodies you might be better off with screw- > mount lenses; you lose full-aperture framing for composition, but > you gain full-time metering. >
My K100D certainly didn't meter usably with M42 lenses in Av mode. At least 2 stops off at all times, and underexposure at that. It worked fine with K mount lenses modified to be preset. Issue was the A contacts based on my testing, if they were shorted, the metering worked with preset lenses. My *istD worked just fine with M42 lenses in Av mode though. I was rather disappointed that the K100D didn't. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
