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Originally Posted by Mr Guy
Since they've been in a padded camera case in the attic for going on a decade, is there any "maintenance" that would need to be done?
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Well, if you look through them with a flashlight or against a bright light, do they look clear? You particularly want to make sure there's not a spiderwebby pattern of fungus growing inside the lens — if there is, it's basically ruined.
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Also, I'm not sure I follow on what the metering thing means in practicality. I'm trying to understand how they are explaining here and it sounds like it's just saying that I'm more or less forced into a manual aperture mode.
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Well, if that's all the lens has, yes.
If any of them have an "A" setting there's no issue. But if it doesn't, with your film camera, there's a physical couping that tells the body what the aperture is set to. WIth all Pentax dSLRs and some of their last (cheaper) film cameras, they dropped this, so in order to take a meter reading you have to push a button rather than having that work constantly.
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Sounds like maybe what I need to do is grab a memory card and the 50mm and just go waste a salesman's time for a bit until I understand the implications.
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Yeah, although the salesman might not know either.