It was, essentially, a little doohickey inside the body end of the lens mount that pressed a tiny pin on the older lenses that would make the lens stop down to chosen f stop. It went away when Pentax ate from the tree of digital knowledge, but many still await its return.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Aperture sumulator was (Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.) From: Scott Loveless > On 9/10/09, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Unless it's something much better than the K7, both in terms of higher >> > performance and higher price bracket. > > My money's on Cotty NOT eating his hat. They'll bring back aperture > simulators before we see a full frame SLR from Pentax. This seems to be an old inside joke on PDML, but I still don't understand what an aperture simulator is supposed to do. Yeah, it simulates the aperture, but to what purpose? Can someone explain it in REAL SIMPLE terms? For reference, I have the following Pentax cameras to use as examples I can look at it while I'm reading the explanation if any applies: K10D *ist-D PZ-1P LX Super Program K1000 Auto-110 Super -- 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. -- 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.
