You compared it to "every film camera Pentax has made," so I mentioned
the Spotty, which, again, I don't find inconvenient. Thinking is good.
On Sep 15, 2004, at 4:03 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
Spotmatic wasn't AE, It is not simpler than the spot F for
manual operation and not as simple as the ES/ESII for
auto operation. Why are you comparing to screwmounts anyway.
This is a bayonet camera and nearly every bayonet camera
Pentax ever made fully supported K/M lenses except for a few
Super budget models which the *istD is not.
JCO
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It doesn't. But it stops down, meters and sets your shutter speed for
the chosen ap at a touch of the green button. No big inconvenience.
It's
simpler than a Spotmatic because the button is close to the shutter and
easily depressed. Paul
I am very curious as to how the *istD could EVER fully support the K/M
mount lenses when it doesn't have the sorely missed aperture sensing
cam, a $10 part found even in the cheapie K1000. Without knowing the
relative aperture setting , how can the camera ever do open aperture
metering? JCO
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I didn't know you were using an *istD, JCO. Mine works fine with K and
M lenses. I use them nearly every day.
"as Good" ?? It sucks now, I don't see how it could get any worse.
It
should get better, not worse. Not fully supporting the "K" mount is
a
crock of shit IMHO. There are many fine K and M lenses that are
being
crippled by pentax *istD for zero technical reasons. But this is
old argument....
JCO
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While I understand that it's too early to make final judgments, is
there anything to suggest that the support won't be as good?
Shel
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Only if the K/M support is at least as good as the *ist-D has now.
Hmmm .... just thinking out loud here ... that M24~35 zoom in the
equipment
drawer should make a pretty nice "normal" lens for the istDS.
