Re: Fasten seatbelts: MZ-S price!!

[Bojidar Dimitrov]

Recently Len Paris wrote: (talking of the Nikon F80/N80)
> 
> Really?  Do you lose all metering with manual focus lenses? Or
> maybe just certain metering modes?  This is a revelation to me.

You lose all metering.

> 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?

What blocks it is Nikon's marketing department.  The camera tries to talk
to the lens' internal chip, and if there comes no answer, the camera does
not meter.  Note that they COULD meter and provide center-weighted and
sopt-metering, but they chose not to support manual-focus lenses at all.

Cheers,
Boz

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