Hi! I've been thinking lately... Take my SMC FA 50/1.7 lens. Standard well-known Pentax lens, isn't it? Let's mount it on my ZX-L, again rather usual Pentax body of today.
Consider this: 1. On aperture ring there is only one click between f/1.7 and f/2.8. Body reports the click as f/2.4. From the body I can set it on f/2.0 and f/2.4... 2. On aperture ring there are no clicks for f/19 and f/13. However I can set these from the body. I've just tried and it appears that I can set the lens to both of these apertures (according to the body) but there is no click. So, obviously, if I had to set either of these on the lens real fast I had no chance of knowing how I did... And of course, to me the lack of the click but ability to set the aperture looks like a hack, not a real feature. So we're talking here about standard lens that basically has three apertures that are unsettable from the non-A body. Not that I rant or something. And I don't think anyone here is particularly frustrated by that. However it looks like a little part of J in FA mount is already here and for some quite time too ... Just my observation... --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
