> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/15 Thu PM 02:12:40 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Well anybody know in what ways m42 > screwmountingsystemissuperior to K mounting system? > > > ----- 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.
Right. My difficulty seems to be that, no matter how I grip things, my fingers on the lens and on the button or my fingers and the prism get in the way of each other as I turn the lens. I just can't find a placing that allows me a full sweep as the LX and Z1-p do. I suppose it's reducing the chance of dust on the sensor.. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
