Stu W
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Jeremy, I gave you a link to a seller on ebay who has the Zenitar in a Minolta mount. Email him and ask if the automatic function of the lens is retained or do you have to manually stop down to meter.
JeremyLangford said:Ok. So I do not want to buy this lens now. I am going to try and find a Rokkor 16mm f/2.8.
Thank you for explaing it to me though. Im glad I didnt buy it, expecting to have it work just like my 50mm.
Stu W said:Jeremy, I gave you a link to a seller on ebay who has the Zenitar in a Minolta mount. Email him and ask if the automatic function of the lens is retained or do you have to manually stop down to meter.
JeremyLangford said:All stop metering means is that the aperture wont stay wide open until the picture is taken right? And so the light-meter can still work because instead of taking the reading from what the selected aperture is, it just sees that less light is coming in. Right?
Kin Lau said:Like I said.... tape it down.
I have the same combo as well, except my Zenitar already had the pin removed, so it works in M mode only.
JeremyLangford said:So having the pin taken out, would make the lens act just like the pin was taped down?
Kin Lau said:Looks like it would... my M42->MD adapter doesn't have the extra piece of metal on the inside, but I do have a M42->EOS adapter that does have it, and that's exactly what it does.