Originally posted by milesy HI All
can anyone explain to me exactly how the A position on a lens works??
The reason i ask is that i have lens (2 in fact) that have A settings but the camera K7 doesnt seem to recognise that it has an A setting and treats it as a manual lens.
Although i can use it like this i would like to try an rectify whatever problem the lens has.
Adrian
Adrian,
What lens is it? Is it an prime lens? With a prime, the lens in auto (A) position means automatic aperture. The focus may be either manual or automatic depending upon the lens itself.
Then in P mode (camesa P-mode), the aperture is selected automatically when you half-press the shutter release button. If the lens is manual focus, you need then to focus the lens and the gren light in the viewfinder gives you some indication assisting with the focus.
You need also to set the camera Rec mode accordingly to enable the Aperture Ring Auto mode: [using Aperture Ring] = [Permitted] (K-7 instruction manual pages 94 & 294). How is configured your camera?
Hope that it will help ..