With the =ist, a lens must have, and be set on, A Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Johan Uiterwijk Winkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Views on the F 70-210 Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi! > > Talking to myself I am. Not a good sign this is <grin>. > >> I see. Well, I did not know that. But then I suppose it means that my >> soon to arrive F 85/2.8 soft would have A position too. That's way cool. > > > I went to Boz's site and saw there that F 85/2.8 soft has no A > position. Still, both my cameras have no problem with that anyway... > How do you meter with a lens without an A position. ? I want to try to get a lens without an A position (because there are a lot of good lenses for little money on the second hand market at this moment ) and tryed to meter if with my Pentax *ist body. I took a lens with an A position and tryed to measure the light with the lens not set to A but to 8.0. In the LCD display (in the M mode) no diafragm value was displayed and I could only measure the light with full diafragm(it seemed i could only measure the light with the full diafragm opening, changing the diafragm on the lens did not influence the measured exposure time). Is this beause i used an A lens or are not A lenses not compatible with this body ? Thanx. Johan.
