William Robb wrote: > When the lens is off A, the electrical contacts are disabled, and the > lens has no electrical communication at all with the camera. > It's not just AF cameras. The Super Program is the same way.
Having switched to digital and no longer having any film camera bodies I can't check this - but I could have sworn that F and FA lenses on an AF body gave an aperture readout on the camera at all times (but A lenses didn't).

