On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Andy Chang wrote: > Interesting... How did you do it with a MZ50, Kostas?
The Pentax MZ-50 causes all lenses not in the "A" setting to meter as if they are set in their widest aperture. This means that (unlike the MZ-30 and the MZ-60) you can shoot with such a lens without the need for modifications, but if you set the aperture to anything other than the widest, you underexpose. The camera allows overriding the DX setting of the film. My initial approach was to reduce the ISO setting by as many stops as the aperture stops I closed, every time I changed aperture. As I got more clued up, I changed the strategy to setting the ISO setting 3 stops under that of the film and then use the exposure compensation as I stopped up or down the aperture. If you are thinking about a variable-aperture, non-A zoom, think again :-))) Of course I took the odd couple or dozen of shots with the aperture/ISO combi an unintentional mess (as I occasionally forgot to adjust the compensation as I changed the aperture) and then found an MZ-5n, authorised the expense with SWMBO and that was me. I still use the MZ-50 (and found an excellent use for it, thanks to Graywolf and Shel: available-light B&W with the FA50/1.7). HTH, Kostas
