It does, but I found it next to useless as it was not terribly accurate. The newer bodies do better. IIRC there's a custom function to turn it on.
-Adam On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Cymen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the *ist D have focus confirmation with M42 mount lenses? If so, > was support in the initial firmware or did it require an upgrade? > > I ask because on another forum (no, not that one -- > forum.manualfocus.org) someone mentioned they had acquired and *ist D > but it wasn't doing focus confirmation with M42 lenses. I was > surprised as I hadn't heard of this limitation. I recently brought an > *ist DS as backup for my K20D but I was considering both it and the > *ist D. > > - > Thanks! > Cymen > > -- > 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.

