Thank you, Dirk, for an excellent job of judging.

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*ist D, probably K 50mm 1:1.2 fairly wide open. 1/150, 200 ISO. Dull day in the shade.




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The same, though from a different seller - Digitalrev.

The advantage of them is that they simply slip over the head of the gun, and the elastic holds them on. I bought two, and they fit all my flashguns, whereas I would need to buy several Stofens to do the same, at vastly more money.

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These earlier cameras had two ways to obtain aperture information - electronically, from the lens via the contacts on the lens mount, and mechanically via a mechanism that you can see in this picture. It is on the far side of the mount on the Super A, but missing on the *ist D.




For nearly twenty years Pentax incorporated these two systems in its cameras, but finally dropped the mechanical coupling altogether when the DSLRs appeared.

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PS: That shot was lit with my new £36.00 AF-500FTZ and a very convenient little diffuser I got on Ebay for not much money at all. It beats these expensive Stofens and Lumiquests hands down.

Who knows? With digital, you just lok up the EXIF data. With film you either have to write it down, then lose it, or rely on memory. Same result.

Digital wins very time.

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You need to read a book called "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves". Then people won't have to ask you what you mean.

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April?

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Thank you, Shane. I knew that you were a person of impeccable taste.

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Very apt, Kim. There's a lot of this disease going around.

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PS: Thanks. I did promise a diet of gull and seal pics. More to follow.

Here is a pic taken with my M 400 5.6 at full aperture on the *ist D.

There would have been no problem using the lens on the K10D, in either AE mode at full aperture (which gives you continuous metering), or by metering at full aperture and adjusting shutter speed and aperture in opposite directions until the desired aperture or speed is reached.

If people want to use old manual-focus lenses on a modern auto-focus camera like the K10D, it's perfectly feasible; just a little less convenient. And, of course, you have to expect that the focussing screens are optimised for AF.




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