It isn't. It meters almost instantly, and it's never deterred me from buying more K or M lenses.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/20/2005 2:54:31 PM >>> 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
