On Aug 14, 2013, at 00:21 , P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I just picked up the Vivitar S1, (third version), that I sent out for > repair at the post office. It seems to be working exactly as it did before > it's unfortunate accident. > > Unfortunately that lens has always been a bit wonky as far a metering is > concerned. I sometimes get the feeling that Vivitar only slapped an A mount > on it and didn't change the way the aperture mechanism worked to match the > Pentax A standard. However it only cost a nominal amount to get the aperture > lever working again, so I'm pretty happy. > I found the metering to be wildly inaccurate with my "A" version S1 lens as well. At the time I blamed the K10D. I have since sold it... -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
