I should probably just butt out, but I'm gonna butt in ... I'm just getting started using K and M lenses on the DS, which, as I understand, is quite similar to the D in the way it uses earlier lenses. Right now I'm finding it a bit cumbersome and difficult, but that's generally the case regardless of whatever new thing it is I try. So I can understand JCO's complaint. But, when long-time photogs like Paul and Bruce and Godfrey and Juan and some others say it's a no-brainer, I've gotta lend some credence to their comments.
The thing is, JCO, is that you bring this issue up frequently yet have never tried the procedure, so your comments are more abstract than reality based. Paul and others use the "green button" and they have done some good work using the older lenses. Their's is a reality that essentially shows the concept works simply and well. Perhaps an advantage I have over you is that I know some of these folks personally. We've gone shooting together, shared time together, and I know their work, so it is, and always has been, easier for me to accept that what they say is quite valid. JCO, I'd say that it's time you just put this issue aside - give it a rest here on the list. Either get a DSLR and try the green button approach, and then speak with experience and authority, or just let the rest of the "fools" go about deluding themselves with the knowledge that you know best about such matters. And now it's time for a big bowl of hot and sour soup .... yummmm! Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > Of course I haven't forgotten. I use FA and A lenses as well. But as > many have said here so many times, the green button quickly becomes an > automatic. It provides quite adequate backward compatibility. The > loudest objections have usually come from those who haven't tried it. > On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:48 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > > I don't want to start up again but you DON'T have to do > > that step over and over and over and over and over > > and over and over with fully supported K/M lenses. > > AE is about 30 years old, have you already forgot > > what it its like to NOT have to DO that "little" step?? > > Just because YOU don't mind doesn't mean these lenses > > are fully supported, they WERE with nearly all the K film bodies.....
