herve_laurent Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Hello everyone, I have been photographing in medium format for almost 20 years. I have Rolleiflex TLR's and a Mamyia 6 that work perfectly for my street Photography. But I also need a motorized SLR for my other main subject:photographing women in the studio and on location. Having a shoot in France in 10 days with a model,I opted to buy a Pentax 645N used with a 150 lens. having owned a Pentax 645 before, I figured it would avoid any learning process. I got the camera today and was surprised to face two issues that I don't understand so I am asking for your valuable input First, the 645N has a big and - I find-unpractical eyecup.It looks like a resting place for the glasses and I like to take them off and use the diopter correction instead . The pentax 645 used to have a simple one at the end of the diopter. I thought this would just come off -unscrew or slide off - but it looks mounted and I do not want to break anything Secondly, It was my understanding that with any pentax 645 manual focus lens, I would get a confirmation in the finder for focusing ( as well as an optional BEEP confirmation of lens in focus). I don't get any of that. I thought maybe the camera had to be loaded in order to give focus confirmation but no I still don't get visual or noise confirmation that lens is properly focused. Third in the LCD panel on the top plate near the handle , I have a "D" on the upper left . what does this mean Thank you for your help on these 3 questions so I can use properly the camera on the trip with the model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pok_hon_wally_yu Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 The D on the LCD panel means "imprinting exposure data information." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pok_hon_wally_yu Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 The eyecup is user-changebale. The small eyecup can be unscrewed from the camera easily by hand. If you have the large eyecup, use a coin to unscrew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prashanteju Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I can tell you about Nii.eyecup can be replaced. foucussing confirmation is there to see. D is for data imprinting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsbc Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I have a simple question of my own. How does one change the ISO setting for film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjclarke Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Hi- you can download manuals here http://www.pentax.com/docstore/index.cfm?show=6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry_walker Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 JS, on the left side of the camera, below the exposure compensation dial, is a lever. Push that forward and hold it. Then, press the up or down arrows on the right side until you get the desired ISO and release the lever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsbc Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 thank you. This is a great resource. I could not find the previous page while I browsed through Pentax's website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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