On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.)
Thanks for the explanation, Matthew. When I do what you suggest will the camera be performing shake reduction? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - Charles Bukowski -- 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.
