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Charlotte, very keen to know how this goes. Specific questions:
a) can you get infinity focus with the adapter?
b) how easy is it to focus those lenses with an EVF? (Note for others: older Pentax film cameras have stunningly good focus screens!)
c) can you do open-aperture metering (with automatic stop-down on taking the shot)?
I'm assuming the answers are (a) yes, (b) pretty good with focus peaking, or at least doable, and probably (c) no. The latter might make the proposition much less interesting to me; faffing around doing the focusing at open aperture, then closing it down to meter would be a pain... light gradually dawns... maybe with the EVF you wouldn't need to?
a) I've not tried yet, all my limited testing so far has been inside, so not much faraway stuff to try focusing on. Will report back though!
b) It's trickier in the EVF than on the LCD screen, as focus peaking on the X-E1 is only on the LCD screen (I think the X-E2 has it in the viewfinder too, but I might be wrong). However, it's certainly not impossible - the digital viewfinder is weird, coming from a film background, and it's not as gorgeous and large as my ME Super's viewfinder. For pin-sharp focus, I'd use the LCD and focus peaking, though. It's not bad though, and certainly useable.
c) Yes! This is the most fun thing, it's like stopped-down metering all the time. Open the aperture blades and the picture gets lighter. DOF isn't reflected until you take the shot.