Using Aperture Ring Is Permitted
Once you have set it to "Permitted" you can forget this menu setting forever, there is no need to change it back again!
Once you have set it to "Permitted" you can forget this menu setting forever, there is no need to change it back again!
Yes, just forget it apart from helping people on the fora who have just bought an old lens and wonder why it doesn't work. It must be the most FAQ of all FAQs!
Best wishes, K.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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I'm happy with people using fora, but I can't agree that they are somehow more correct or that forums is in any way wrong.
Taken from the link given.
K.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
My website
Whatever its origins, in my view data is (normally) a collective noun in English, and should therefore be treated like other collective nouns. The milk is bad, and so is the data.
Discuss...
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- in Av mode, the camera could permanently stop down the lens (think m42 here). I don't think the camera has to apply a constant force to do this (but if this is the case, then the solution could be to stop-down the lens on half-press only).
- DoF preview would then serve to open the lens for focusing (not needed for the second solution).
- P-TTL could also be enabled, as the metering flash can now occur at the desired aperture, without any influence from sticky blades (and no, P-TTL doesn't necessarily need the actual aperture to work).
- M mode would work just like now, so those not willing to use this new feature can just stick to it.
This would add tremendous value to the old M lenses, IMO, without changing anything to the current behavior of A and m42 lenses, and also adding P-TTL to m42s...
The green button is fantastic, works really well for me.
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I can't imagine that there is. But OTOH why is the option there, and set to [Prohibited] if it can safely be enabled at all times?
Only rationale I can think of is as a warning against shooting on an A lens with the aperture ring not set on A. But if that's the goal then locking up the entire camera for dead seems a very draconian measure when something as simple as turning off or otherwise error flagging the F display would seem to suffice as a notification. So I'm thinking there may be more to this after all?
Reason I ask is that it's tedious changing the menu item when simply switching from a DA lens to a K lens and back.
TIA!