All Canon and Sony bodies will TTL meter with MF lenses mounted via adaptors. Nikon's higher-end bodies (D200 and up) do as well.
Canon 5D's are particularly popular with the MF set as they make a great Digital platform for Contax/Yashica and Leica R shooters. -Adam On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If they buy Canon, Sony, (Konica/Minolta), or Nikon and wish to retain > TTL metering manual focus lenses are not generally an issue. Since > Canon and Nikon between them have about 90% of the DSLR market between, > just statistically it's unlikely to be seen as a viable option. It's > self fulfilling. > > > > David Savage wrote: > > My experience with the local photogs says otherwise. > > > > They buy the camera & kit lens & upgrade to the better non consumer glass. > > > > Old MF glass rarely enters into the purchasing decision matrix. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> That's simply not true. Manual focus glass is very definitely popular > >> amongst some groups of photogs, some of whom, like myself, were > >> recently new to Pentax. MF lenses were the first things I bought both > >> times I've bought into the Pentax system in the last 3 years. > >> > >> -Adam > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > People new to the brand aren't interested in manual focus lenses no > >> > matter how good they are. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Dave. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:38 PM, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > > short term maybe, but when FF permiates, the aps > >> > > lenses are simply not going to be very desireable > >> > > when you have got a nice FF camera in you hand. > >> > > > >> > > Secondly, the other half of my statement was that > >> > > the secondary market for FF lenses ( assuming good > >> > > ones like smc K,M,A,F,FA etc will soar in value, > >> > > especially the ones with features you cant buy anymore like the > >> > > K,M,A ( precision manual focus ). > >> > > jco > >> > > > > > > > -- > > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
