----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: Well anybody know in what ways m42 screwmountingsystemissuperior to K mounting system?
> > Buggered up the lens release? I find the lenses more difficult to take > off the DSLR than the film cameras but haven't been able to, er, put my > finger on why. What's your take on the matter? > They moved the release button to lower on the body, and removed the alignment dit from the lenses (this was done on the aperture ring free lenses). Prior to this, if you put one thumb on the lens release button, and the other thumb on the did, all you had to do was line up your thumbs to mount the lens. It was possible to mount a lens without looking at the camera, and was one of the features that brought me to Pentax. M-42 was better for mounting because there was no alignment of any sort required when mounting a lens. The downside of M-42 is that lens changes took much longer because of the number of turns required to remove the lens compared to the 1/4 turn required on the K mount. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
