Mine does exactly the same and I also regret that it does. Setting the AF button up for AF + AE-L would give this button at least some meaning.
Regards, Sven Zitat von Joe Wilensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I grabbed a like new MZ-S from KEH last month (it truly was like new, > and only four rolls had gone through it based on the data imprinting > count -- I don't think it was reset, either, because it looked like it > had never been used at all). I had borrowed an MZ-S from a list member > briefly a little over a year ago, and had been thinking about the MZ-S > ever since ... anyway, the question is whether this is a quirk -- I > changed the Pentax Function 6 to make AF and AE both lock with a press > of the AF button on the back. I didn't realize it at the time, but this > completely disables the AE-L button on the back so that it has > essentially no function at all. (It will still "wake up" the camera to > give a meter reading, and it still will select Pentax Functions in the > PF mode, but it will no longer lock exposure.) This is true for the > AE-L button on the grip, too. I couldn't remember if I had tried the > AE-L button before this, and I was truly bewildered until I thought to > switch the PF back so that only AF is performed by the AF button on the > back. Lo and behold, the AE-L button works fine again. The manual, of > course, makes no mention of this. Is it a quirk anyone else has > noticed? > > Joe > >
