John Mustarde wrote:
>> What puts me off about the K2 is the ISO/Exposure ring.
>> [...]
>> Just how hard are they to get used to?
>
> Once you memorize the action needed to properly turn the ISO ring, it
> moves freely. Or moves more freely after spinning it a few times to
> loosen it up.
John went on to describe a method (the same I use -- push the
release button with my left thumb and turn the ring with my
left index finger) but since there's more than one answer to
"haw hard are they to get used to?", I figured I'd weigh in
on that.
When I got my K2, I loved it _despite_ that ISO ring. It's
a nifty enough body to be worth getting used to, IMO. After
a year or so with it (it might have taken less time if I
weren't switching between different types of bodies) the ring
felt like much less of an obstacle to loving the camera, and
more of a "fade into the background" detail. On the one hand,
at the two year mark (mercifully it was one of the cameras that
_wasn't_ stolen last year), I am still more likely to load the
same speed film into the K2 as was in it the last time I used
it, if I'm loading up multiple bodies at once and deciding
which film to put where. On the other hand, it's not enough of
a bother to make me hesitate when I change the setting on the
K2 to use it as a meter for another body that doesn't have a
built-in meter when I'm in a hurry, and then set it back to
whatever it had been set at before. That ought to give some
idea how little of a PITA it can be once one does get used
to it.
BTW, make sure the exposure compensation is zeroed before
you try to adjust the film speed.
-- Glenn
