On 20 Jul 2005 at 23:07, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Rob Studdert wrote: > > > On 20 Jul 2005 at 13:58, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > > > >> How can you not get repeatable results in manual mode? > > > > Because the when the aperture is set via the body the cameras stop down > > mechanism doesn't pre-set the taking aperture as accurately as the > > mechanical > > stop enforced when using the physical lens based aperture setting. > > Sorry I got you to think and write about this; it's all wasted on me. > > But thanks anyway.
No problems, it just makes formal lens testing a real PITA. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
