[Jonson PL]

Hi fellow Pentaxians,

I posted on the Themotec, but it seems this is the place that is used. So a repost here :


I‘m thinking about purchasing the K10 in the new year. And was considering, among other lenses, getting a manual focus 50 mm lens.

The description from Monopod in Ole’s post, in regard to K lenses seems very precise and good.

So reading it, I understand that you don’t have to light meter manually. The camera can do these things, even with these older lenses. In the *ist D camera, all you (pretty much) had to do was chose the aperture, press the green button and the camera would set the right shutter speed.
This seem like really good news, makes it easy to use manual lenses. Kan clearly therefore understand that these lenses often are discussed in forums.


So with the K10 I would imagine that it would be somewhat similar ?

In the custom functions you set the Using Aperture Ring to => permitted.

The camera operates in AV mode, and the shutter speed should change in regard to the open aperture. (Possibly I would have to push the green button)
Do I have to use the manual K lens wide open ? Or can the camera figure out the shutter speed according to which aperture I’ve put the ring at ?

I hope I’ve explained myself so that it can be understood.
I came into the Pentax and camera world in the AF times, so I do not have experience with manual focus lenses. So my questions may seem pretty basic.

Thanks in advance
Kind regards
Sune