Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Jun 26, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > > >>>>The LX does metered exposures past 30 seconds, >>>> >>>> >>>Useful once in a blue moon >>> >>> >>Unless you do a lot of long exposures, like Ralf. >> >> > >Sorry, but I also occasionally do work which requires very long >exposure times. Metering in such circumstances is a nearly total >waste of time. Experience and bracketing are more useful. > >
Except with OTF metering. Then metering for such work actually does what it's supposed to do. Not perfect, but far more reliable, especially when you combine the LX and Acros 100, which has no reciprocity failure until 120 seconds. Of course OTF ambient metering is unique to the LX and a couple of OM models (2 and 4 IIRC). I'm going to be doing some of this with Acros as soon as I get the chance. > > >>>>Shoots at ISO's below 200. >>>> >>>> >>>That's useful - wish the D did. >>> >>> > >ND filters. I needed them with Agfa APX 25 too, just not as strong. > > That will work, but it's one more thing to carry. > > >>>>Take high magnification finders for macro work. >>>> >>>> >>>Easy to attach a suitable magnifier to the D. >>> >>> >>But you don't get as much magnification (5-6x on the LX finders, vs >>about 2x for the right-angle finders) and the right-angle eyepieces >>are >>more awkward. Plus the lower magnification one for the LX is also a >>waist-level finder. >> >> > >Come now. Set up D or DS in tethered mode, focus and take a picture, >take a look at what you did on a 23" display. Re-focus and shoot >again as required. For static subjects, you can't do any better than >that. High magnification finders are useless for moving subjects. > > Can't do that in the field for static subjects (Which is where I shoot all of mine). High Mag finders are useless for moving subjects, but quite useful for static shubjects in the field. >Godfrey > > > -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
