I am planning on getting back into SLR photography after about 5 years of only using a point and shoot. I'm looking at buying a digital SLR, and since I've always loved the tilt and shift of view cameras the Hartblei super rotator looks perfect (and much cheaper than the canon T/S lens). The T/S function is one of the main reasons I want to get a new SLR. I know all T/S lenses are manual focus, which is fine. Reading a review of the Hartblei, one person said that since there are no electronics in the lens (part of the reason it is so cheap), the camera does not know that there is a lens on. I assume the light meter still works, correct? My very first camera, many years ago, was a pentax K1000 everything manual, so if the new digital SLR's work the same way on manual with this lens I'll be fine. i just want to make sure that I won't need to use an external light meter. I used to do quite a bit of photography with my film SLR (it was a Nikon 6006) but I feel I have forgotten absoultely everything. Has anyone tried the Hartblei and the canon T/S lenses? I am wondering if the fact that the Hartblei is all manual will be such a pain that I'll wish I'd saved up for the Canon lens. thanks in advance!