On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Adam Maas wrote:
I actually find that shooting K/M lenses on my D is less annoying than
shooting the same lenses on my KR-5sv. Even with the crippling of the mount
the D is quicker and easier to shoot with. I can however see why someone
coming from a less manual body would find the crippling annoying (I'd love to
see an uncrippled KAF mount myself, but I can live with the crippled mount as
well).
-Adam
I for one would like to see a non-crippled mount, but I can
understand and accept the current workaround. It's a cost-reduction and
marketing decision. Even if it came out with a more "pro" body that cost
$1k more, I probably wouldn't get that one instead of the -DS I currently
have. If it had loads more features (read: resolution or no crop factor),
I would consider it.
Just as a though, I've come up with a possibly less annoying
method they could use to stop-down meter. Rather than requiring "AE-lock"
via stop-down metering if either the aperture ring of subject is changed,
I would like to see a "relative" aperture setting method. Basically, set
the aperture ring, point at something, and hit the "green button."
Camera measures the difference between wide open and stopped down and sets
the *relative difference* from wide-open internally. The camera will know
how many f-stops to be added to the metered scene, and add them at shutter
release. Then one can change the subject, subject composition, and use
P/Av modes as well. Only when you change the aperture ring would you have
to hit the button.
Does this sound like a useful option for people? I'm pretty much
of a photography amateur. For what I do, however, I tend to change
subjects and composition more than aperture so it would save lots of
stopping-down.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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