The aperture simulator is the little lever in the camera body that mates to the aperture lever in the lens. Its on the upper right side of the mount, when viewed from the front, on all high quality K mount cameras before the digital era, and all K mount cameras before the advent of the MZ/ZX bodies.
Shel Belinkoff wrote: >I still don't know what an aperture simulator is, but the earlier D-series >cameras had the same menu setting, and many of us have been using lenses >with aperture rings all along. > >Shel > > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: Patrick Genovese >> >> > > > >>http://www.dpreview.com/articles/pentaxk10d/page9.asp >> >>There is a setting : >> >>Using aperture ring >> 1: Prohibited >> 2: Permitted >> >>Does this mean we can use the aperture ring in the traditional way ? >>i.e. that Pentax have brought back the aperture simulator ? >> >> > > > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
