Adam Maas wrote: >In practice, the 'Green Button'/AE-lock hack on the DSLR's is simple and >easy to use. You always set aperture on the lens for non-A lenses, and >either hit the AE-Lock (Green Button on D/K10D) and it immediately sets >an appropriate shutter speed or you use the DoF preview to get a >metering readout. I usually do the former and it works very well. > >Av mode is usable with adaptor-mounted glass (since that is stop-down on >any K mount body and doesn't have the aperture coupling either) or >wide-open with pre-A glass. The latter is surprisingly useful for a >serious low-light shooter like me. > >Frankly working with MF glass on the K100D is less hassle than using the >same glass on my MX (Or any other purely manual body). > >-Adam > > > I'm getting tired of you saying this, you obviously don't understand, or choose to ignore the limitations of light meters.
> >David Bliss wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm new to the list but I've been reading the archives for the last few >>weeks so hopefully I will not make too much of a fool of myself. I'm a long >>time amateur user of Pentax 35mm film gear about to buy my first DSLR. I was >>minutes away from buying a K100D when the K10D was announced... >> >>I have a lot of manual-aperture K-mount glass, so being able to use it on >>a new DSLR is important to me. I know there are workarounds for using >>such on the K100D but they're pretty bad (metering on DOF-preview only >>and/or manually setting aperture to match the lens's). >> >>The dpreview page (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/pentaxk10d/page2.asp) >>and a few other verbatim copies thereof explicitly says >>"Ability to use lens aperture ring" so I was very excitted to think that >>Pentax would have finally fixed this (idiotic) design error on the K10D. >> >>But, the press photos of the K10D clearly show an absence of a mechanical >>aperture coupling lever. And the (mis)released manual from a couple of >>days ago documents the same behavior as the K100D. Can anyone confirm >>this for sure one was or the other? >> >>Also, can anyone explain to me why the K100D (and apparently the K10D) disable >>(a) non-central AF sensors (for focus confirmation, not AF, obviously) and >>(b) all the metering modes except CWA when using a pre-A lens? I cannot >>conceive of any possible reason these features would care about the lens >>aperture being set manually. >> >>Thanks! >>David Bliss >> >> >> >> > > > > -- 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
