I love the way the K mount is. Hate the Nikon way. With the K mount I can very quickly change lenses without any gyrations. Really helps in fast changes for even shooting. Never had a problem with accidentally releasing a lens.
-- Bruce Thursday, March 1, 2007, 3:50:39 PM, you wrote: BM> Just curious, has anyone "accidentally" detached their lens from the body? BM> I ask that because I am in middle of a debate on the merits of the BM> K-mount which is opposite to the layout of the BM> Canon/Nikon/Olympus/Sony(KM) mounts. To change a lens with the BM> k-mount, your hands are in their natural positions with the left hand BM> holding the lens and the right holding the body with the index finger BM> resting on the shutter. An extension of the middle finger presses the BM> release button and a twist of the left hand removes the lens. With BM> the other cameras, you have to change hand position first before BM> anything else can happened. BM> Someone said that the other systems are safer because it keeps dummies BM> from accidentally detaching their lens. Has not happened to me with BM> the K-mount (I once accidentally detached a zoom lens from a Canon BM> AE-1; I thought the breech mount ring was the aperture...). I BM> actually think that the other systems have *become* more unwieldy BM> since digital cameras shrunk the left side where the film canisters BM> use to sit giving users less of a grip... BM> Bong BM> -- BM> Bong Manayon BM> http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
