[Leica] K-mount lenses on K100D

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

This looks like a big pain in the neck, but in practice it isn't very 
complicated.

Nevertheless I keep my "M" lenses where they belong on the K1000 and MG, 
and use only screw mount, non-auto "K" lenses, and "A" and AF lenses on 
my isDS.  That's still quite a large "vocabulary" of lenses.

Jim


Phil Swango wrote:

> 
> 
> I want to be careful here, because I'm not sure all versions of the *ist
> work the same, BUT, with my DL at least, here's how it works:
> 
> First, set the custom menu setting to aperture "Permitted" as Sonny wrote.
> Then, if you set the camera to Av mode, the meter will work with the K
> lenses, BUT it won't stop down during exposure, so all pix will be shot 
> wide
> open regardless of how you set the aperture ring.  (Try it for yourself to
> see).  This would be fine in very low light if you wanted to shoot wide 
> open
> anyway, but not in daylight.  BUT, you can use the lens in manual mode,
> metering either with the camera (push the off-on switch all the way to the
> right and you'll be in stop-down metering), or with a hand meter.  This way
> the lens WILL stop down to the preselected aperture setting when you shoot.
> Basically it'll be like using any manual camera.
>