>Ah, but you lose metering with them. The old F70
> used to meter with MF
> >lenses, and the F90x still does, but the F80 does not.
>
> That's why it should be called F69 (or whatever
> number between 69 and 66) in
> the first place.
>
> regards,
> Alan Chan
Really? Do you lose all metering with manual focus lenses? Or
maybe just certain metering modes? This is a revelation to me.
If the light still passes through the lens, and gets into the
body, then what blocks it from getting to the meter cells in the
body? I can see where, a metering mode may be lost if you don't
have an IC chip in the lens to feed focus distance information
to the exposure meter, but I don't see how you could lose all
metering, unless the only metering mode the camera has is the
mode that requires the IC chip. I guess that is quite possible
but see no reason they would build a camera that way.
I haven't been planning to buy an F80, so I haven't looked into
it's specifications very deeply. I will do so now. I haven't
read a lot of discussion about it on the Nikon lists, either.
Maybe the Nikonians don't consider the F80 to be a serious
camera alternative.
Len
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