You would need to measure the actual speeds - but maybe somebody has opened the cameras and can tell if they are constructed stepless. I think not - there probably is a cam for every speed. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: Lon Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 18. maaliskuuta 2001 15:43 Aihe: Re: KM (and other K bodies): Stepless shutter? >Hi, > >by 'stepless' do you mean between the click-stops on the shutter speed >dial? It's very difficult to tell on the MX. I believe that the KM has >match-needle metering (?). If so, this is a continuous scale, whereas >the MX has LEDs so it displays the results in discrete steps. But >having played around with the shutter speed dial on mine it _seems_ to >be stepless at all speeds, although it is rather difficult to hold it >there, and there would seem to be little or no benefit to be had in >making use of it. > >--- > > Bob > >Sunday, March 18, 2001, 1:49:55 PM, you wrote: > >> Fooling around the other day with my KM, >> I found that the shutter is stepless >> at low shutter speeds. Is it stepless >> at _all_ shutter speeds, like the MX? >> If not, where does it become stepless? > >> Please e-mail me; post to the list if >> you think the response would be of general >> group interest. I've done a fair amount >> of looking on this list, and have not >> seen this question posed before. > >> Thanks for the info in advance. > >> Lon Williamson >> - >> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

