The "green button" on the DS is actually the "AE-L" button on the back upper right hand side of the body. Depressing it with the camera set to "M" exposure mode stops down the lens and takes a meter reading and sets the shutter speed accordingly....
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Weir Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 5:53 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Basic image editing & Manual focussing On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:44 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: > stop down metering on the pentax dslrs is NOT a > focus issue because you only take a reading with > the green button to meter, you can than still > focus with the lens wide open afterwards.... Thanks. That's clear. But then I don't have a green button on my DS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
