I did, until I found out the hard way that it wasn't true for the newer bodies (Not sure about the K10D, but the K110D and K100D don't do Av properly with preset lenses that don't short the A contacts).
I shoud have been more specific. The older bodies (at least the *istD) do Av with M42 or preset lenses fine, not sure about the DS or DL, the low-end K bodies don't. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > Humm, isn't it Adam who usually does the pointing out??? > > 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. >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
