The Camera Whisperer
(That’s me.)
So. I have this friend, and she has this Pentax DSLR. She also has all these sweet lenses from her old film camera, but couldn’t get the digital camera to accept them. A couple weeks ago I put one of them on (the vintage 50mm that took the following pics), and this time the camera said, “yes sir, how may I help you?”
I told it to take some sweet pics, and also to have a hella trippy depth-of-field on the ones I take from a distance.
The camera said, “OK, but everything else is going to be manual.” *
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Today, through the magic of inter-net and reading manuals and randomly mashing buttons, we managed to get her camera to accept all the other lenses, including this enormous beauty.
HUGE ups to Pentax for never changing their lens mount. (It’s ok that Canon changed theirs back in the 80s, since I’m starting from scratch anyway.)
*Much later (still today) I realized I could have just switched it to aperture priority instead of being a klutz on full manual.