Isnt by its very nature ANY digital camera a meter in itself? All you would have to do it set it for manual shutter speed and aperture based on a guess and then fire shots and use the LCD to adjust speeds or aperture until you get a good exposure/histogram. It also seems to me that this method would be more accurate than any mode relying on the TTL meter....It would work for macro/manualflash/etc as long as the lighting didnt change or in the case on on camera flash, the flash to subject distance didnt change for the actual shot you want to take.... JCO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IstD and Macro? You have to change a custom function to allow the it to work, Bill. I tried it with the prototype at GFM and my M lenses. Worked fine. Now, I forget just which function that was. "Allow shutter to fire with non-A lenses", maybe? Except for macro and extreme telephoto shots I do not really see where losing internal metering is a great hardship. Quite frankly losing the auto-diaphragm would be more of a problem to me the way I work (As I have mentioned on the list many times, I tend to use a incident meter most of the time anyway). Thankfully, you don't lose that when you set the custom function mentioned above. I think that if I had the camera I would invest in an A-series macro, though come to think of it I do not have a macro lens anyway (grin). What is missing in the camera is the mechanical lever that feeds back the aperture ring position to the meter so the camera knows what f-stop is set on the lens. That only affects the metering. All the work arounds I have heard mentioned here on the lists would lose the auto-diaphragm, so are not viable in my opinion. William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Owens" > > Subject: Re: IstD and Macro? > > > > >>When our local Pentax rep was in town a couple of weeks ago, I tried this >>with the M100 Macro. I set the aperture ring to f8.0, looked into the > > front > >>of the lens and tripped the shutter at 1/8 sec. The lens DID stop down. > > It > >>seems that all you lose with a K or M lens is metering. A hand held meter >>should work in these situations. > > > I tried it, and yes, the lens stops down, but not until after the exposure > has completed. > I have no idea about the hows or why, I am just reporting what I saw. > > William Robb > > -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
