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The *ist custom function enables the use of lenses with an aperture ring, as opposed to the new J lenses which have no such ring but control the aperture with camera controls instead.
I think that if you used a lens with aperture ring with the *ist and kept that lens on "A" then the camera would control the aperture just as if a J lens were fitted. The custom function merely enables you to take the lens off "A" or to use M series or earlier lenses with no A setting. I am open to correction on this because we have not yet fully evaluated our new *ist, but that is what I read the situation as so far.
Sue likes her new *ist which shares much of the operational style of her digital camera. For myself, I think I prefer the MZ5 and MZ3 designs.
Best regards, John
thanks again Mark
See http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/technology/K-mount/crippled.html
and http://digilander.libero.it/aohc/selart18e.htm
for information about the new "crippled" approach.
That aside, I really like the camera and look forward to seeing the results.
Stuart
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I had a look at the *ist the other day, and liked what I saw until I read in the brochure and on the net that the camera needed to custom fuction 17 to use K and M series lenses I gather that this is so all apertures can be used but can anyone tell me exactly how this is acoplished because I have many K and Ms that I love to use on my mz5 as well as the manual focus cameras they were made for.
thanks for any help you can give.