hi, I like your idea with regards to the metering issue. Its much better than "green" but of course not as good as full K/M support.
I don't however buy into the idea that this K/M lens support is a cost reduction measure. The part and code to support it is so ridiculously simple and cheap that even dirt cheap very bottom line BUDGET cameras like P3 ( $125 retail ) had it so you can throw that theory/excuse out the window... New features far more expensive are being added to cameras all the time like more MP , faster throughput, etc and at higher mfg cost and sell prices. I am not saying pentax should support the K/M lenses on ALL their DSLR bodies but their DSLR camera line should have AT LEAST one body that does... Were are talking about using basic featues of PENTAX BRAND K MOUNT LENSES here. Damn! JCO -----Original Message----- From: Cory Papenfuss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm 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 -- ************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
