While I VERY seldom use AE with film, I have several ES/ESII cameras that offer ON THE FLY aperture priority AE WITHOUT having to stop down, even with SCREWMOUNT Pentax lenses that I use. That is 1972 technology and better than the *istD "fix" IMHO.
Secondly, film and digital are different animals at least negative film is. There is a huge exposure latitude with negative film and exposure isnt really critical like it is with todays digital cameras. While I am not using a DSLR at this point, I THINK my preferred exposure method would be AE with autobracketing continous, not 1-shot stopped down AE... JCO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K/M on *istD Not exactly one shot stop down. If I understand what you mean by "no continuous aperture priority," I'd have to disagree. The camera will hold the setting until the green button is pushed again. And, while I've not used the istd in the described manner, others here have noted how fast and unobtrusive the method is. Frankly, it's good enough for many of the folks on this list. Odd that you'd feel it's unacceptable (if you really do) since you seem to use a lot of screw mount lenses, and this system is infinitely faster, and almost transparent. "J. C. O'Connell" wrote: > > sounds like no continous aperture priority or open aperture > metering, just a 1-shot stop down metering/AE. while much better > than the initial offering, still not really a full support > of K/M lenses IMHO. Guess we'll have to wait for the "D2" > model to get back up to the 1975 technological levels of the "K" > film bodies..... >
