Since all these Pentax DSLR bodies handle K/M/A lenses all the same way, anybody have a clue as to why this would be true if it is true? I could see where maybe some M42 lenses were or were not shorting out pins on the bodies maybe making some variations, but that would be variations due to the M42 lenses themselves, not any variations in the bodies by model. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:47 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens I did, until I found out the hard way that it wasn't true for the newer bodies (Not sure about the K10D, but the K110D and K100D don't do Av properly with preset lenses that don't short the A contacts). I shoud have been more specific. The older bodies (at least the *istD) do Av with M42 or preset lenses fine, not sure about the DS or DL, the low-end K bodies don't. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > Humm, isn't it Adam who usually does the pointing out??? > > John Francis wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Pentax DSLR's with M42 lenses (which >>>> offer metering only via the green button hack or DoF preview >>>> >>> Is that true with M42s? I thought that it meters fully in Av mode >>> without any user intervention. >>> >> It does. Adam is wrong. >> >> As has frequently been pointed out here, if you want to use old >> lenses with the digital bodies you might be better off with screw- >> mount lenses; you lose full-aperture framing for composition, but you >> gain full-time metering. >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
