Originally posted by gruniongrady THANK YOU! That did the trick! Only problem is, no more using internal meter for the bellows, but, that's photography!
Huh? Internal metering is there! With a bellows or non-A-type manual lens on your camera, it should default to Av mode, aperture priority. Set the aperture, aim, focus, shoot, and the camera picks the shutter speed. Or switch to M(anual) mode and hit the Green button. All thru-the-lens (TTL) metering, no problem.
I often use a simple PK or M42 bellows with some longish (90-160mm) enlarger lens for non-macro work, just general photography. It feels very liberating! I'll often set the mode dial right next to M -- on my K20D it's Tav mode, I'm not sure how the Kx is set up, maybe Av is there. Anyway, it's just one quick flick from Av (with automatic shutter) to M (with manual shutter), depending on how I want to finesse the light.
I plan to write an article about using bellows for non-macro shooting, and all the optical materials that can be stuffed into bellows -- lenses, fresnels, prisms, magnifiers, etc. Some tips: By scraping the paint off a PK bellows base or a flanged M42-PK adapter, Catch-In-Focus can be used -- very handy. Lenses on extension (bellows and/or tubes) usually need hoods. And using a bellows rig for street-shooting can attract attention to the rig, and distract attention from what you're aiming at.