The closest thing that happened to me is what John (Francis) described: the lens was not fully locked and I began turning the zoom ring then realizing the whole lens was turning. That did not require pressing the lens release. That mistake can happen to any camera mounts (unlocked lenses).
Anyway, this whole conversation began because of an acquaintance arguing why his chose his brand of camera and not a Pentax; he had this fear of making that mistake. I have never made that mistake and I suspect that no one else has. Everyone's reply seems to have validated that. At a crossroad is my photographic journey, I had to decide whether to go Pentax or Nikon and my options were reduced to the FM and the MX whose features were more or less a match. It was the K-mount and its ergonomic arragement that drew me in. Bong On 3/3/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What do you mean by "accidentally"? > > I've mistaken the lens release for the DoF preview on my LX, but the > lens didn't come off because I didn't rotate it; had to make sure it was > re-locked, but I've never pushed the release button by mistake and had > the lens just come off. > Nikons have the lens release on the other side and I have trouble > changing Nikon lenses because they rotate the "wrong way". > > The Canonistas in r.p.e.35mm got on my nerves when I first started > perusing photography newsgroups & I've never held a Canon SLR, so I > don't know what it takes to remove/install a lens there. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
