On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:58 AM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-08-04 08:45 , Paul Stenquist wrote: >> If the manual focus lenses are A series, you'll have all the autoexposure >> options that the K10 offers. With M and K series lenses, you'll have to use >> a workaround for exposure. Basically, you set a stop on the aperture ring, >> and press the green button. That causes the camera to set an exposure. Other >> than that, manual lenses work fine. > > note that with the green button, if you normally use exposure compensation > you have to apply it as a shutter adjustment after using the green button, > every time; this is what keeps me from using my M lenses much, but i find > using an A lens very satisfactory
My experience with everything but the K-5 is that no matter what lens I use I have to chimp the histogram and tweak the exposure on 80-90% of the shots. Come to think of it "Chimp the histogram" could make a good T-shirt. > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
