On Aug 18, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: >> Most of my A, F and FA series lenses have never been >> taken off the A >> setting since I bought them, and I shoot almost 95% >> of the time with >> the camera in Aperture Priority exposure mode. > > With the lens on "A" you're actually shooting in > Shutter Priority AE mode.
Not true. The aperture of any A/F/FA/DA lens is set by the body in all modes with any of the Pentax DSLRs, presuming the aperture ring (if the lens has one) is set to the A position. In Av and Manual mode, you set the aperture with a control on the body, the body sets aperture per your setting. I understand you are working with an MZ-S, which does not have body- controlled manual aperture settings. So a lens without an aperture ring can only be set to other than minimum aperture in Program and Shutter priority modes. This is different on the DSLR models, which operate more in line with the PZ-1p model (at least that's my understanding ... I never owned a PZ-1p). > In any event... > > While all of what you say is true I will "never" buy a > lens without an aperture ring. It just doesn't feel > like photography to me at that point. There are > certain things, no matter how advanced or tweaked the > technology gets, that I just can't do without. The > feel of an SLR in my hands without a way to manually > set the f-stop on the lens is just icky to me. Nearly all modern SLRs set the aperture manually via a control on the body. Nikon, Canon, Minolta aka Sony, Pentax. In not so much time, you might not have any option to buy anything else other than as used gear. > But then I drink all of my scotch neat and my guitar > amp is all tube so I just like things a certain way. I don't know what 'drink all of my scotch neat' means, and I don't play the guitar. But I do know how to operate my cameras ... I do drink my single malt without adulteration (water, ice, etc), if that's what you mean! :-) > Plus, I almost never shoot in Shutter Priority. Same here. The DS is almost permanently in Av mode, and occasionally in Manual mode. > Usually, when I want a particular shutter speed, I > either adjust the lens (keeping DOF in mind) until I > find it or go to manual exposure. Same here. On the *ist DS, setting the exposure mode to Av (and presuming the aperture ring is set to A or there is none) the thumb wheel controls the aperture. Just flick it back and forth to adjust your lens opening. I would never buy an SLR that did not give me the option of direct control over the lens opening. Whether the control is on the body or the lens is irrelevant to me. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
