About the best way to use it is to leave it in manual. Set the lens to f/3.5 for viewing and focusing, then just before making the exposure close it down until the correct exposure is indicated.
Hope this helps.
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Scott Cassel wrote:
Hello all. I'm just picking up photography as a hobby and am having a problem with the above mentioned lens. When I'm looking through the vewfinder, there is a dark grain covering my view. This is not the case with any of my other lenses, which includes a SMC Tak 50mm f1.4 among others. The darkness and, to a lesser degree, the grain are reduced when the Auto-Manual switch is over 'Manual.' The view gets dark as night when it the switch is over 'auto', but as it is on a K1000, that would be normail, I suppose.
The focusing circle in the center of the view is clear though, and seems to work fine.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
The lens seems clean...not sure about fungus, as I'm nost sure what the does or looks like exactly, but the grain and darkness is uniform throughout the view, so I'm doubting that's the problem.
Thanks in advance for your help. I have taken a few pics with it, but have not gotten them back yet, so I'm not sure how this effects pic quality.
Scott
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