On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:13 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:

> The stopped down metering is the green button function
> where you set the fstop you want and the metering selects
> the shutter speed for you but stops down the lens to take
> the reading. At small f stops like f11 the RF in the screen
> blacks out and the center weighted metering slightly
> overexposes.
> 
> If you want to manual focus or use many manual focus
> only lenses, I cant recommend the RF screen enough.

It worked for me on my K1000 SE. 

I think I'm gonna have to study up on "stopped down" vs. "open aperture." Or 
maybe not. Maybe I'll just wait till it matters to me. Right now it's just 
something I don't understand that I don't know if I need to understand -- right 
now.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eew...@bellsouth.net





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