Originally posted by BernardMarx Aha! So all is good and I am a happy camper! And as it turns out, I shot my first roll of film on auto (though I didn't realize I was doing so).
Jesus used this parable to teach the disciples about the Takumar's auto/manual switch:
Two brothers from the deep backwoods, both entirely ignorant of the world, got called up by their draft boards and were placed aboard a train bound for an induction center in a distant city. It was the first time for either to ride a train. The brothers both purchased a box lunch to take with them and the box lunches each included a banana, a novel fruit they had heard of but never before seen.
The train rolled along clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety clack and the two young men marveled at the many new and wonderful scenes that passed by their window. Around noon the two contentedly munched their lunches. Having finished the contents of the box faster than his younger brother, the elder of the two eagerly peeled back the skin of the banana and took a bite...just as the train entered into a tunnel.
"Did you take a bite of your banana yet?", he asked his kid brother.
"No."
"Well, don't! I took one bite and went blind!"
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The way you would know the lens was in manual would be that every time you set the aperture ring to a small aperture your viewfinder would go dark.