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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > The Pentax Thread: "besides the fact that no one cares"
 
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Rodney Chops
Jan 5, 2006
Exceedingly Narrow Minded
Hey Pentaxians. I have a K-50 (which I love) and I have a bunch of garage sale lenses, which seem to work well on aperture priority. Only thing that I don't understand, is the light meter does not work with any of them. On AP the camera knows how to expose the picture right, regardless if its F22 or F4... Yes it will not show me on the meter what it's thinking. I can set it to manual, and keep taking shots until i get the exposure right, but its really annoying. Have I messed up a setting somewhere?

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Rodney Chops
Jan 5, 2006
Exceedingly Narrow Minded

HolyDukeNukem posted:

This guide should help:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/54-pentax-lens-articles/110657-how-use-meter-manual-m42-lenses-all-pentax-dslrs-k-5-k-r-k-x-k-7-a.html

Basically your gonna need to use the green button to determine exposure since the lens isn't sending aperture data to the camera.

Thanks! Very useful.

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