Alexander wrote > Interestingly, as far as I remember, also with F/FA > lenses the SFX does not show the aperture number on > its display when the lens is off A , while newer > cameras do.
I had an SFXn and the reason it didn't display the aperture in the viewfinder was because it had no means of doing so in *any* mode. For some inexplicable reason Pentax went backwards from the Super Program's great LCD viewfinder display (with separate shutter and aperture displays) to a hard to read, ME super-like, LED shutter-speed-only display. This was a serious flaw with the SFX/SFXn as, to check aperture, one had to take one's eye off the viewfinder and check either the external LCD (in P or Tv modes) or the position of the aperture ring (when in Av or M modes). Alan Chan comment is appropriate here also: "So you asked why? Another brilliant Pentax decision I guess."
