On 18/09/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And with many long telephotos - the FA*80-200/2.8 comes to mind - the > aperture ring is damned difficult to get at when you have the battery > grip on the camera and/or you're using a tripod. This was one of the > reasons I decided to sell my MZ-S a couple of months ago; it was just > so inconvenient using the aperture ring with several of the lenses I > use a lot and the MZ-S had a single-dial control system. Despite its > other strong points, I regarded this as a major ergonomic failure of > the MZ-S and I really missed it when I sold my PZ-1p.
Interesting, I don't have the grip, I don't often shoot longer than 200 (if I did I'd probably own a Canon system by now) and most often I'm shooting with compact prime lenses. So in my case aperture priority on the lens is quite viable. Or rather it would be if the camera had aperture coupling and didn't have that ridiculous overhanging RTF (I've thought of sawing it off my *ist now that it's worth little more than a paper weight). Now wouldn't it be just dandy if the user had the choice to operate both ways? This is my point, not that one mode of operation is far superior that the other but that the exclusion of one mode of operation has eliminated a comfortable mode of operation for some of us when both modes could readily be accommodated. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
