hmmm. Isn't 90mm more of a normal lens on a 6x7? It is about equivalent to a 45mm in
the 35mm world, innit?
Doug
At 8:03 AM +12008/31/01, David A. Mann wrote, or at least typed:
> Well I'm now the proud owner of one second-hand Pentax digital spot meter.
>Quite a nice little piece of equipment :)
>
> The shop I got it from had a very nice Pentax 67 (latest model before the 67II)
>recently arrive on the shelf. If it were a little (actually a lot) cheaper I would
>have bought it as its in really good condition. They had an older, more "used"
>body selling at a lower price, with a waist level finder and a very bright
>focussing screen with the grid-lines on it. I might have bought that if they'd
>had a lens to go with it :)
>
> One thing I found strange: the newer body had a 90mm f/2.8 leaf shutter lens
>on it. Seems strange to put only 5 aperture blades into what's essentially an
>outdoor portrait lens.
>
> Since I'm intending to buy a 67 at some stage (I've decided that I don't need
>the extra features of the 67II): how do you activate the mirror lockup? I don't
>know how to cock the shutter without film in the camera so I couldn't try the
>"mystery switch" on the left of the lens mount, which I thought might be the
>MLU control.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>- Dave
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Douglas Forrest Brewer
Ashwood Lake Photography
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