On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Interesting - why I find the Pentax way quick is because your right > hand is already holding the camera - no need to change. Just press > with your 4th finger (almost sits over the release button). Your left > hand is already holding the lens for shooting. So no position changes > at all to remove the lens. Just press with your 4th finger on right > hand and twist with your left hand and the lens is off. > > I'm guessing that for most it is the way you first learned that seems > the easiest.
Not sure about that last statement. I've owned cameras with so many different interchangeable lens mounts over the past 40+ years that I feel fairly confident that the Linhof lens board in my first interchangeable lens camera is not affecting how I change lenses with the Pentax, Leica-M or Nikon very much... ;-) My right hand is dominant: it's better at manipulating things and stronger too, so I tend to switch my grip to hold the camera in my left hand and depress the button, handle the lenses with my right hand. I just tried doing it the way you suggest ... with compact lenses like the FA43 and DA21, it feels very awkward to hold and press the release button with my RH ring finger while grasping and manipulating the lens from the body, juggling it into the shoulder bag, and then fitting the replacement with the left hand. After a few tries, I went back to my way to hold body with left hand, manipulate lens with right hand, and that goes much more swiftly and surely for me. The Canon and Nikon lenses, regardless of size, always gave me a nice, solid ring to grasp on the lens that didn't move when you were putting them on the mount. Pentax DA lenses do that with the rearmost part of the lens mount, but the FA and M/K lenses have the aperture ring there and present a less stable area to grip to work if the lens is small. With larger lenses this is less of an issue. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
