Hi Arnold, on 15 Jun 03 you wrote in pentax.list:
>>But OTOH you can use your old lenses better than every Nikon D100 or >>Canon D60/10D user can do. >Well, I wouldn't consider buying into Nikon or Canon. However, getting >a 4000 dpi slide scanner for me is an alternative to buying a DSLR..... That's an option, too. A friend of mine uses the Nikon Coolscan 8000ED for scanning his Pentax 67 slides with 4000dpi. There is also a cheaper version for 35mm slides, only. The results are great and there is simply no digital camera that can compete. But it takes more time and you don't have the advantage of the immediate picture control. Because of this my friend has combined his MF setup with an Optio S ;-) >>>If you want the trick to work well, you would need another hole in >>>the mount of the lens so that it would have a 2nd locking position. >>necessary to use them safely - yes - then I would do that. I think >>this is far better than doing without those lenses or even changing to >Well, I might do so, too, if there was no alternative, however I prefer >to first ask Pentax whether they really want me to damage my K- and M >series lenses so that I can use them on the *ist D.... That might be the best option - wait and see. Did you contact Pentax concerning this problem? [manual mode modification] >I do not think that this is a big modification. Actually, the DOF >preview position of the main switch already activates the illumination >of the extrenal LCD display of the camera - it could switch on and off >the meter just as easily. Sounds easy, but I'm afraid that there might be too much "ifs" for realising it afterwards. If they would have asked us earlier..=:-[ Cheers, Heiko
