I would like to move toward digital for a number of reasons, mostly the ability to take lots of shots and losing the baddies without "wasting" film.
But, I've got a ton of old Pentax glass, mostly old screwmount Takumars, but also some more recent AF zooms for my ZX-5N. So I went out today to look at am IST DS (or maybe a DL??) at the local camera shop just to see and feel the camera. I liked the feel, and might adapt to all the controls, but the whole lens thing has me stumped. I believe (but the salesman was not sure) that I can use all my old glass (screwmount with my adapter). But am not sure if a) there will be any metering at all, or b) whether I could use an aperture priority setting and set the aperture manually while the camera sets the exposure. Can y'all explain what would happen? I'm also put off by the focal length conversion. My 28-105 and 28-300 would become almost a normal to tele lens with no wide angle at all. But the kit lens (18-55 I think) looks like junk and is not much in the tele department either. So then I'm back to carrying several lenses which can be a royal pain under some circs. How do y'all handle this? thanks chuck -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
