Lots of vintage lenses overexpose. I have a few lenses that constantly are compensated with -1 EV. As long as its consistent its not that big of a deal. My A35-105 seems to overexpose in bright light, but as soon as I get to dim light it seems to start exposing normally. Go figure.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2013, at 15:04 , P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They are prone to a particular type of failure. (a screw holding a follower >> lever can come lose jamming both the zoom and focus mechanisms at the same >> time allowing the information brush to be mangled, (that part is made from >> unobtainium by the way), however and the price has gone up and down. I've >> owned two of them and the first lived up to it's reputation, the second is a >> bit soft at 210mm As to price I paid $69.00 plus shipping for the first and >> almost $160.00 plus shipping for the second, the second in fact failed >> mechanically not long ago, but I was able to get it repaired using parts >> from the first. >> > > I had an A-compatible Vivitar 70-210 and could never get it to expose > properly. It always overexposed! > > That and the one-touch (which, as a kid, I thought was awesome but as an > adult I hate), led me to sell it after a couple of years. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
