When I visited John Francis a while back, we put my K18/3.5 on his istD and were able to get some good results without too much trouble once we (actually, John) figured out what had to be done to get the exposure right. Maybe John can jump in with some more details. Seems that he had to calculate (whoops! there's another dangerous pitfall) some exposure compensation ... but it wasn't all that hard. We had pens, pencils, calculators, and the owners of the Chinese restaurant in which we had lunch kindly loaned us an abacus <vbg>
However, based on what I now know, the A lenses might be the best manual focus alternative for the istd. shel William Robb wrote: > About all I use is A series lenses on mine. > I don't consider manual focus to be a work around, though others may. > > I haven't used a K lens on it yet, though I haven't ruled it out. Not having > metering and having to use manual exposure is a work around, in that > metering must be done with an external meter. > There are a few work arounds, such as partially dismounting the lens and the > like, but that sort of thing is not for me. > > William Robb
