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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
11-20-2014, 10:24 AM
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AHhhhh!
"HOME" wasn't very descriptive so I assumed it wasn't related. Maybe you could relabel it?
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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
11-19-2014, 09:26 AM
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I have heard of Eric but have no idea how this works. Is there a thread or background on contacting him and what he does?
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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
07-08-2014, 01:12 PM
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On my K-50 I'm not having any luck using my two lenses that are manual even after downgrading firmware. Can someone please confirm this works - despite what Pentax is now claiming?
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I was just plain confused. You are right the Green Button works as you describe and it is working. The DOF option provides the optical preview but there is no manual metering bar displayed. I think I was confusing my D100 Super experience with my K-50 one - and the DOF on D100 Super with the green button on the K-50... sorry folks.
What worries me is the crazy response from Pentax saying you can't use the M series lenses and get metering from them on the K-30/50/500 series. Crazy.
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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
07-08-2014, 12:45 PM
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My K-50 Firmware is 1.02 which is NOT what this forum lists as the latest for the K-50. This forum shows 1.01 as the latest but the Pentax official site shows 1.02 - has anyone tried this since 1.02 was released on their K-50???? I swear the M series lens metering worked on my original firmware - it doesn't anymore and Pentax says the K-30, K-50, and K-500 don't support M series lenses for metering.
Please someone tell me I'm not crazy.
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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
07-08-2014, 09:43 AM
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I'm having a lot of heartburn. I bought my K-50 with the expectation that I could use it with my manual lenses when desired. However it doesn't seem to work. I have set the green button to do TV Shift and enabled the use of the aperture ring as described but when I push the green button I get a quick stop down and then it opens again. When I contacted Pentax they replied in a support email that it wasn't supported - that the K-30, K-50, and K-500 only worked with A series lenses if you wanted to meter.
I reached out to them and showed them their own website info and they said it was wrong.
Is Pentax/Ricoh right? That doesn't seem to match up with the experiences reported on the forums and elsewhere. What firmware version do you have installed if you have a K-50 and it works as expected? I upgraded mine and now I'm wondering if I downgraded it by upgrading - if you know what I mean.
I would swear that before the firmware upgrade this was working on my two manual (non-A series) lenses.
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