Except that we weren't necessarily referring to long primes but the convenience of using the thumb wheels with big zooms.
With long primes, many have even larger aperture collars making them even easier to use. My A 400mm ring measures 1 9/16". Simple to operate. -Brendan --- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan MacRae wrote: > > > > --- John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>As has been pointed out many times in the past, > >>that's > >>incorrect if you're using a long-ish telephoto; > your > >>hand is nowhere near the aperture ring. > > > > > > "nowhere near"? If your hand is on the lens it is, > by > > pure definition, "near" the aperture ring. > > > > -Brendan > > > > Certainly not on my 180/2.8 Nikkor, and even less so > on a longer lens. > Often enough with long glass the camera hand will be > far closer to the > aperture ring than the lens hand. > > -Adam > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
