I shudder to think that I would have to use the aperture ring on my A400. My left hand is always out toward the end of the lens. How do you support yours? Paul On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
