> On Oct 5, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What the manual largely lacks is any description of _why_ you'd want > to use the features. So you need to scan the PDML and hope that you > can spot that useful piece of information floating amongst the > butt-nuggets of overly tight y-fronts and butch automobiles. > > I have the PDML to thank for my finally engaging back-focus, and > discovering how useful the green button is for metering with vintage > glass, among many other things.
Glad to hear that others see it this way. As you say, the manual reads like a shopping list. I certainly have the list to thank for educating me about my equipment and using it to make photographs. So, though it’s not come up for me experientially, what is “back-focus”? And it’s been a while since I’ve used a manual lens—until I started trying to do action photography I wanted nothing to do with autofocus—but I don’t recall ever using the green button. What’s special about it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
