I do wish that Av mode worked with the K/M lenses. I've been poking
about with the Zenitar 16 the past two days and I miss Av.
---
Had a giggle this morning. One of my photo buddies bought a Canon 20D
last Fall and I've been helping him learn photography. He bought a
Zeni 16 too, on my recommendation. I had the DS + Zeni on the table
when we met for breakfast and he picked it up.
"Fook!", he said in an Irish accent, "This bloody thing has a much
better viewfinder than my shite does."
I nearly spit up laughing, the way he said it. :-)
I think he's learning...
Godfrey
On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
I came to prefer using M42 lenses on the D to using K/M lenses.
Just for aperture priority (which works just fine with M42 lenses).
-Adam
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Gang,
Something I've been meaning to do for a while was to try a screw
mount lens
on the istDS. Yesterday a ST 105/2.8 was mated to the camera and
I was
quite pleasantly surprised. I'd forgotten how nice and smooth the
lenses
focused, and how small and light they are. It was a pleasure to
use on the
DS. What was even more surprising was how bright the finder was,
even with
the lens stopped down to f8.0. Quite a bit brighter than I
remember the
Spotmatic to be. Putting the lens on a KM or KX and comparing
finders
might be worthwhile. Yesterday was very grey and overcast, and it was
raining heavily. Still, the view through the finder allowed for a
bright
image and easy focusing. Today has started out sunny and not overly
bright, and should allow for more time to play with the
combination, and to
perhaps compare the screw mount 105 to the K105/2.8.
It might be fun to pick up a few more screw mount lenses after I
see how
the 105 works out.
Shel
