If anything, the DS is easier than the D, the AE lock is much more
conveniently located than the green button.
I'm mostly shooting K lenses on my D, and the only annoying bit is when
using the grip to shoot vertically, as the green button isn't on the grip.
-Adam
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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.....
