I hope it works. If it does, it makes the K10D a better screwmount body than the reasonably priced EOS bodies (Which have inferior viewfinders to the K10D and lack SR of course).
-Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > I'll try it with the K10 this weekend. I still have a few screwmount > lenses. (I once had many, but I sold some to fund my first D.) > Paul > On Feb 14, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> 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
