On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/14 William Robb <[email protected]>: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Colen" >> Subject: Re: My next DSLR wishlist >> >> >>> >>> >>> I want it to read the aperture ring of my old lenses like the D300 and >>> D700 do. >>> >> >> Oh dear God no......... > > Seriously they do... > > :-) > > But you can't use the aperture ring with newer "chipped" lenses. > > Dave >
Yes you can, it's a Custom Function (every Nikon which supports aperture rings and has a 2 wheel interface has this CF). But it forces you to always use the aperture ring with any lens that has it, you can't switch back & forth between the ring and the wheel seamlessly -- 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.

