----- Original Message ----- From: "chuck" Subject: Wanting to Move to Digital
>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? > There aren't a lot of 24x36mm DSLRs out there, so get used to the new format. I don't know about the 18-55, though I have heard it is a decent performer from people whose opinions I have come to repect. I am willing to carry several lenses, to the point I only have one zoom lens, and wouldn't have it if I could have gotten a 10mm lens from Pentax. Some things are worth a little pain. Pretty much any Pentax lens will work on any Pentax DSLR, from screw mount on up to the most modern. You will get metering with all of them AFAIK, though non A lenses use a stop down AE metering method. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
