I actually find that shooting K/M lenses on my D is less annoying than
shooting the same lenses on my KR-5sv. Even with the crippling of the
mount the D is quicker and easier to shoot with. I can however see why
someone coming from a less manual body would find the crippling annoying
(I'd love to see an uncrippled KAF mount myself, but I can live with the
crippled mount as well).
-Adam
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
I have about had it with this insulting "dreamworld" crap. I use everything
from
old RF cameras like canon QL17s making my settings totally manual by
experience only
to LARGE FORMAT CAMERAS like 4x5 and 8x10 with zone spotmetering which are
about as manual as you can
get to P&S cameras like ME Supers and AF digitals etc. I have done action,
still lifes, landscapes,
etc, etc. I use primes, I use zooms. I KNOW what AE is, I don't use it much
but
when I want it, I want it. I KNOW the difference between open apeture
metering and what it
means in low light. You apparently don't. Just because you & a few of your
friends are
shooting with K.M on a digital with good results doesn't mean it doesn't
matter
that the k/M lenses are cripped with regards to AE and open apeture metering
because
they are and it CAN make a difference to real world photographers in some
real situations.
If open aperture metering and AE didn't matter then it wouldn't have been
developed
and become the world standard 30 years ago. Just because someone uses manual
apeture
mode most of the time doesn't mean he doesn't want or need open aperture
metering some of the time. Your logic is very flawed. I don't need to buy
something to critique it. As far as the "process" goes I do it A LOT
already.
Its called stop down metered manual, duh? So I don't think you have any
right to say that
because I don't buy XYZ camera, I don't know what it is or the process
because I do.
Metered stop down manual is NOT open aperture metered manual or open apeture
AE.
I am not saying metered stop down manual is invalid or sucks or isnt useful,
but its quite
different from open apeture AE which is a far more automated when
automatation
is desired or NEEDED. Ditto for OPEN APERTURE metering, its far better in
low
light because it can make the difference of whether you get a reading all or
not.
jco
