How that works to take a meter reading is:
1. You point the camera at the subject.
2. You push the stop down button on the lens to the stopped down position.
3. You adjust the f-stop and/or shutter speed until the meter indicates the correct exposure.
4. You take the photo.
As you can see there is one (1) extra step compared to what you are used to. To me the fact that all my lenses would worked the same is more important than saving that one extra step so I would prefer an SP or SPII, but I am from the old school that preferred to use identical cameras so they would not have to think about how that particular camera worked.
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Graywolf wrote:
IIRC, of the Pentax screw mount cameras:
The ES, ESII, and F meter wide open with the correct lenses, stop down with
others. F is manual exposure, ES's are auto exposure.
The SP, and SPII use stop down metering but meter the same way with all
screw mount lens.
The models previous to the SP do not have internal meters.
Yeah, but you see this metering wide open or stopped down stuff is exactly what throws me. You can explain it until you are blue in the face and I am still not sure I'll get it. Because what I am not getting is...
What I need to know is what STEPS *I* have to go through to take a picture.
I point the camera at something, I manually focus, I set the aperture, I set the shutter speed, and the meter says, okay, go ahead. Then I take the picture. That is what I was used to on the K-1000. It seems that the Spotmatics are more complicated. And some only work with some lenses. Or maybe all work only with some lenses.
When people mention stopped down or wide open metering, I keep thinking, okay, that means *I* will have to do something differently. Take the meter reading and reset the shutter speed or reset the aperture setting. Or do some type of mental calculations to get the right meter reading.
Which is why my question was -- which meters *the most like the K-1000?* (See steps above.) And which can I use non-Tak/SuperTak screwmount lenses on? If any?
If I am limited to Taks/SuperTaks that's okay. But I need clarification on that point as well as what do *I* have to do step-wise, metering.
Sigh.
Marnie :-| I already know putting screwmounts on the Canon will mean some mental calculations and resetting to get right meter reading. I guess. Pretend I am a complete metering dummy here. :-)
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