On Thu, 13 May 1999 05:10:50 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote:
>"How can you get full-aperture readings when the lens doesn't seem to have any
>way of telling the camera what its maximum aperture is?"
The camera doesn't care what the absolute value of the maximum
aperture is.
It simply meters at maximum aperture, and then makes adjustments for
however many stops you have stopped the lens down. It knows the
relative aperture, but not the absolute aperture. Make sense?
BBB
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