A80 aperture control: real mechanical iris?

[mil22]

Dear all,

I'm thinking about whether to buy an A80 or an S400... one big advantage of the A80 is the manual controls, but I'm wondering whether the camera has a real old-fashioned mechanical iris to allow real depth-of-field effects in 'Aperture Priority' mode? Does it just have a gray filter like the S400?

Maybe someone who's got one could have a look and tell us...

Thanks in advance!
Matthew

[stduc]

Real Iris - and it works! It's also the shutter though, so you can't use the fastest shutter speeds at the widest apertures - but I guess that won't bother you.

[mil22]

Thanks for the info!