your out of your F%#$ing mind or totally full of B. S. It is WAY harder to focus and compose accurately with the lens stopped down all time OR to open the lens, to focus/compose and then have to manually stop the lens down to compose/shoot. This is why automatic aperture lenses were developed in the late 50's early sixties for nearly ALL SLR lenses of all types and brands except a few specialty lenses where to save money, or not possible, etc.
SECONDLY, aperture priority AE was possible in "old" Pentax M42 film bodies, and still it's possible in the new K mount ones, but only with stop down mode like Canon which S U C K S the big one. Thats worse than the metering limitations of green button/KM lenses! The whole point of my post is NOT about old M42 bodies anyway, its about the future availability of a true M42 DSLR with a M42 mount and auto aperture M42 lens function support OF COURSE. If it wouldnt support auto aperture M42 lenses, there would be no point in making one in the first place. jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens No, I just disagree on what is a necessary feature for easy M42 lens use. I own two cameras with M42 mounts and auto-aperture caability (Chinon CM-3 and Spotmatic SP). Almost never use the things (the CM-3 gets used occasionally). Most of my M42 shooting is done with an old Canon Rebel XS, which gives me a winder, Aperture Priority AE and TTL flash, along with a superior meter readout (LED imitation match needle). I find it far more useful for most shooting than the old M42 SLR's. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > No, he just doesnt understand how user friendly > automatic aperture M42 lenses can be and that > a Canon with a M42 adapter is not even close > to what a properly designed M42 DSLR would > be like to use. And he DID state that all the > Canon setup would be missing is a metering > button of some sort - W R O N G ! > > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of William Robb > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:06 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Maas" > Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens > > >> I am not mistaken. I never claimed the adaptor does auto-aperture >> (Hence >> the note about the lack of stop-down metering switch, which also uses >> the auto-aperture function). > > Another case of thread hijacking? > > William Robb > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
