On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just noticed that with my new 50-200/4-5.6 ed wr lens mounted the k--5 > doesn’t ask me to set the focal length of the lens when I start it up. Which > reminds me that it does when I’m shooting in manual mode. What do I do in > that case when the lens is a zoom lens? When shooting with a manual lens that doesn't communicate its focal length to the body, there is no way to tell the body that it's a zoom lens. The body uses that setting for shake reduction. There wouldn't be much point in telling the body "It's a 70-210 zoom," because the body still wouldn't have any way to tell which focal length the lens was set to at the moment of exposure--the lens doesn't communicate that information, which is the whole problem in the first place. So the best you can do is tell it what focal length you'll be shooting the lens at. (Or, pick some reasonably close average value, or disable SR so the setting doesn't really matter.) -- 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.
