Not I. I drop the whole camera/lens combo... CW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bong Manayon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:50 PM Subject: K-Mount Accidents? > Just curious, has anyone "accidentally" detached their lens from the body? > > I ask that because I am in middle of a debate on the merits of the > K-mount which is opposite to the layout of the > Canon/Nikon/Olympus/Sony(KM) mounts. To change a lens with the > k-mount, your hands are in their natural positions with the left hand > holding the lens and the right holding the body with the index finger > resting on the shutter. An extension of the middle finger presses the > release button and a twist of the left hand removes the lens. With > the other cameras, you have to change hand position first before > anything else can happened. > > Someone said that the other systems are safer because it keeps dummies > from accidentally detaching their lens. Has not happened to me with > the K-mount (I once accidentally detached a zoom lens from a Canon > AE-1; I thought the breech mount ring was the aperture...). I > actually think that the other systems have *become* more unwieldy > since digital cameras shrunk the left side where the film canisters > use to sit giving users less of a grip... > > Bong > -- > Bong Manayon > http://www.bong.uni.cc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.5/706 - Release Date: 2/28/2007 > 4:09 PM > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
