Posted by rick oleson on September 16, 2003 at 06:27:42:
In Reply to: Re: Which old, fully-manual Canon? more? posted by Justin Ball on September 15, 2003 at 13:51:43:
Hi Justin:
Don't worry about hte stop-down metering stuff. The FTb, TLb and TX (also the later AT1, which is another possibility) work exactly the way you indicated originally (similar to the Pentax K1000). Some older models required that you stop down the lens to take a meter reading, but that isn't necessary with any of these.
For those times when you WANT to see your exact depth of field in the finder, the Canons (unlike the Pentax) have a lever that allows you to stop down the lens... but you don't have to use it. The Canon FTb and AT1 also have self-timers, which the Pentax (and the TLb and TX) don't have.
The AT1 was the manual-exposure companion to the AE1. It had an electronically controlled shutter but operated and handled similarly to the FTb.
rick :)=
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