graywolf wrote: > > But then you lose the auto-diaphragm, Arnold. You younger guys who never > had to use SLRs without an auto-diaphragm don't know what that was like. > To give you an idea, before auto-diaphragm became the standard SLRs were > only used for specialized technical photography. Auto-diaphragm is the > thing that made the SLR a general purpose camera. > > Given the choice of auto-diaphragm or behind the lens metering I will > take auto-diaphragm every time.
I sort of grew up with "pre-sets." I was truly glad to move on... <g> keith > I notice very Van Gogh like attitude here on the list. If she doesn't > love me, I will cut off my ear. Or, if I have to replace 1/2 my lenses, > I will switch to Canon and replace all of them. But then serious Pentax > users have always been crazy anyway. > > Arnold Stark wrote: > > Now this really is some consolation! So if I were to screw a new > > locking hole into the mount of a K or M lens so that the aperture levers > > of lens and *ist D disengage, I would have two modes of operation: > > > > 1.) Aperture priority mode with "real aperture metering". > > > > 2.) Manual mode: Hit the "green button" to meter (real aperture > > metering) and to automatically adjust the shutter speed. > > > > Not too bad. If and only if one is ready to modify the lens's mount. Of > > course it would have been much much better if Pentax had not modified > > (crippled) the body's bayonet mount first..... > > -- > graywolf
