On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:00:13AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > > > .. I won't buy a lens without a f-stop ring since I shoot a great > > deal in Aperture Priority. I just don't want a plastic > > lens that's going to break the first time it's used. .. > > A lens without an aperture ring is less likely to break no matter > what you choose to do with it: it has fewer parts to break. > > If you shoot in aperture priority much of the time with any of the > DSLR bodies, an A setting and an aperture ring do exactly the same > thing: you set the aperture with the body.
If, however, you use an MZ-S (which is, IIRC, the body mentioned earlier on in this thread) a lens without an aperture ring isn't an ideal match. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
