Hey chaps (and gals),
So today my Takumar 135mm/2.5 (Bayonet) arrived having purchased it effortlessly from forum member blumoon722 (fantastic chap to deal with and swift sale process... how does one actually give stars and whatnots to forum members who done good?).
Anyway, loving the piece of glass! I am however needing advice or confirmation for the proper use of this style of old glass, as my only current experience to date with old glass are the Pentax lenses with 'A' meaning I can control aperture from within the camera body when the lens is placed in the A position.
This lens don't have that (I knew that when going in for the buy), but it seems I'm a little more handicapped for shooting with it than I first thought.
1) I thought that the aperture might still be displayed on screen but I see that's not the case. Can the EXIF ever know the aperture the shot was taken at?
2) I thought being in Av mode etc, I might be able to just toggle the aperture on the lens and snap away, but I realise that changing the aperture in Av mode doesn't impact the shot at all, it's still registering as wide open. I mean it's still fine, it works in all other regards the way I like, Auto ISO and a shutter speed that never dips below a point I'm uncomfortable shooting with... it's just always gonna take the shot at f2.5 (hey that's alright, it's really quite sharp at it's widest anyway!).
3) So you have to be in Manual mode to get the camera to recognise aperture changes, there's a lot more spamming of the green button after an aperture change to give you some kind of starting point for the shot huh...
4) Can we do interesting and funky things with that green button then in Manual mode? For example... when I use Av mode with my lenses I have Auto ISO on (durr...) and specifiy an ISO limit perhaps to something like 6400. Then in menu 1>ISO AUTO Settings>AUTO ISO Parameters I change from Slow, Normal and Fast depending upon the situation, but what this kinda ends up meaning for Av mode is that my shutter speed doesn't drop down below a certain shutter speed that I feel comfortable with for that given situ. Can we at all be in Manual Mode and change the aperture on the lens, and then whilst lining up the camera at the scene, press the green button and get something similar to occur to like what I outlined above? Cuz what I'm getting with Manual Mode currently is kinda the opposite of what I want. I get a fixed aperture (as determined and controlled by me on the lens, dat's cool and fine), but then there's no Auto ISO and so you have to determine the ISO first and then the green button pretty much dictates the shutter speed only (basically in Manual mode the aperture and iso are fixed, green button only messes with the shutter speed).
We can't turn it around at all can we, have the green button adjust the ISO and keep the Shutter speed fixed?
I think my ideal 'mode' to use with this lens would be something to mimic Av mode, in that I choose the aperture, have ISO fluctuate with the press of the green button, and have shutter speed behave (basically something like 1/125 and let the ISO fall where it may, and if it's bright conditions and I'm shooting wider etc then I would scroll the Front Dial to boost the shutter speed till it stopped blinking. I just find using the thumb wheel to adjust ISO (if the other dial with the different things to toggle on and off like ISO, HDR, +/- etc is set to 'ISO') a little more awkward. And I hate reaching or looking to press the ISO button and then using a dial...
Picky aren't I!
Hey wait... didn't I just outlike TAv mode? lol
Ach... here's some shots I fired off today with the old glass;
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