I'll try it with the K10 this weekend. I still have a few screwmount lenses. (I once had many, but I sold some to fund my first D.) Paul On Feb 14, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
