is there any way i can use automatic shutter speed with a 'manual' lens on my d3000?
what I mean is, although the camera clearly cannot control the aperture, I don't see why it can't control the shutter time based on the amount of light coming through the lens?
(obviously, i'm making the tacit assumption that the metering happens though the camera lens!)
I got the lens thinking i was happy doing things manually (back when the earth was cooling and dinosaurs roamed freely , i used my dads film SLR and had to so all these thing by hand) but never really thought that the problem is i don't have a light meter to hold up and work out exposure times.
I also thought that, I could put in aperture priority mode, and it would work out the shutter speed. But of course, in aperture mode , it wants you to specify the aperture then IT sets the lens to that - so doesn't work with a manual lens.
it doesn't seem totally beyond the wit of man to me, for it to say 'with whatever aperture you've set, here's what your shutter speed should be'. or even for it to let me put the aperture in!
but it seem that manual is 100% manual with no help - or everything else requires an auto lens?
is there any way to use the metering of the camera itself?