I should have read the whole post carefully before posting this...
Nevermind.
P. J. Alling wrote:
It may be a problem with your *ist-D or with the electronics in that
particular lens. DOF should
work in any mode and just to make sure I tried it with each of my FA
F and A lenses. Guess what
it does. If you don't have problems with other lenses I'd suspect the
lens, otherwise the camera has
a fault.
Jan van Wijk wrote:
Hi all,
This may be a known issue to istD owners but ...
I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today
and noticed some unexpected behaviour.
While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless
the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use
the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture.
Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture
when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'.
This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed
aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the
actual DOF in the viewfinder as well.
The best work-arround I found was to use manual and the 'green
button' to set exposure ...
(or no use of DOF-preview :-)
I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in
all modes ...
So, is this a problem with my istD, or do they all have this ?
Regards, JvW
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