Try atleast to get a SF-1n or SF-Xn, as Pentax will still service those.
You can send one in for a CLA and feel good about it!
I have a SF-10 as a backup for my ZX-5n. No complaints really!
At 02:17 PM 1/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey knowledgeable Pentax people.....
>
>Man, Pentax has a lot of interesting options. Looks like fun. But as a
"newbie", I don't want to buy stuff that doesn't line up and match okay
either...
>
>I'm trying to put together an inexpensive (cheap, actually) body that has
motor drive and AE (with both shutter and aperture priorities), with a good
50mm 1.4 lens. (Probably the "A" model, if I can get one somewhere.)
(Auto-focus is not an absolute requirement here either.)
>
>So, what if instead of an "AF" lens, I use this "A" lens (50 f1.4) on a
ZX-M; what AE metering functions would I still get? SP?, AP?, full
auto-program AE? And what differences of info in the viewfinder might there
be here?
>
>And, how about SF7, and SFX cameras? The junky, plastic looking ones;
they're very cheap right now. (And no, I don't care about their only having
auto DX coding. It's not a problem for me. They do have exposure
compensation...)
>These black boxes use the "F" auto-focus lenses, right? but suppose I put
an "A" on one of them? I'd lose the auto-focus, right? But what about their
metering functions? Would I still get SP and AP auto-exposure functions here
too ?
>Hey, they do have motor drive and 1/2000 shutter speed. For $100, excellent
condition? Amazing!
>Skip Leib.
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>people.....</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV> </DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>Man, Pentax has a lot of
>interesting options. Looks like fun. But as a "newbie", I don't want to
>buy stuff that doesn't line up and match okay
>either...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV> </DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>I'm trying to put
together an
>inexpensive (cheap, actually) body that has motor drive and AE (with both
>shutter and aperture priorities), with a good 50mm 1.4 lens. (Probably
the
>"A" model, if I can get one somewhere.) (Auto-focus is not an absolute
>requirement here either.)</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>So, what if instead of an
>"AF" lens, I use this "A" lens (50 f1.4) on a ZX-M; what AE metering
>functions would I still get? SP?, AP?, full auto-program AE? And what
>differences of info in the viewfinder might there be
>here?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV> </DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>And, how about SF7, and SFX
>cameras? The junky, plastic looking ones; they're very cheap right now.
(And no,
>I don't care about their only having auto DX coding. It's not a problem for
me.
>They do have exposure compensation...) </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>These black boxes use
the "F"
>auto-focus lenses, right? but suppose I put an "A" on one of them? I'd lose
the
>auto-focus, right? But what about their metering functions? Would I still
get SP
>and AP auto-exposure functions here too ?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>Hey, they do have
>motor drive and 1/2000 shutter speed. For $100, excellent condition?
>Amazing!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
><DIV><FONT face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><STRONG>Skip
>Leib.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
>
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