The lens I use almost all the time since I got it -- a Sigma Macro Apo Super 70-300 has no aperture ring and I didn't notice until I read this post. I use it in aperture priority, set to macro, for about 80% of the pictures I've been taking this summer. The other two I use most are a Sigma 50/2.8 Macro EX Manual Focus* (sometimes with a Tokina Doubler) and a Tokina 28-70 AF. The other nine lenses are sitting in the cupboard unused. I didn't say gathering dust because they aren't.
* A great lens! Don W John Francis wrote: > 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. > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
