Bill wrote: >On 01/02/2013 5:31 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> The FA lenses also tell the body to what distance they are focused. Perhaps >> his lenses are at infinity? >> >> to the desired 1/180. >You guys can trust me on this. It's the same reason for why SR has to be >manually set with A lenses.
Ha, of course. With an "A" lens the camera can't know what the focal length is and so can't determine the minimum "safe" shutter speed. So it's defaulting to the maximum x-sync speed. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.