The green button quickly becomes intuitive if one uses K or M lenses frequently. I use mainly older manual lenses, and I find that metering has become an automatic part of my picture taking sequence. I hit the button without really thinking about what I'm doing any time the light changes or I reframe a shot. I also find myself automatically reframing a bit for the meter reading if necessary, such as aiming the camera more toward a neutral colored part of the scene or pointing it down to eliminate some sky. I don't find it to be an inconvenience in any way. Paul
> > For some reason, this strikes me as hellishly awkward. I'm familiar with the > Green Button on my MZ-S, and it's nothing like this with M series lenses. > > Do any of you D or DS owners find this workflow to be so troubling that it > interferes with your photography? Perhaps I just need to get rid of the old > lenses anyway. > > Tim > > On 1/19/05 10:56, Billy Abbott wrote: > > > As Kostas said, you set a custom function to allow the shutter to be > > released on older lenses, put the camera in manual mode, stop down as > > you would normally and then hit the AE-L button (I think the DoF > > preview works as well) to stop down momentarily and meter. It then > > sets the shutter speed to the correct speed for the exposure it > > determines. > > > > So, afaik the same as the *ist-D, apart from the colour of the button. > > You also don't need any new firmware - the standard DS firmware does > > this out of the box. > > > > I think the metering modes are also restricted to centre and spot, but > > that seems to be a fairly standard restriction as far as I have seen > > so far. > > > > billy >
