Forming good professional habits is all about doing stuff automatically. It's quicker and simpler to follow a single overall rule, even if it's sometimes unnecessary, than it is to rationalise individual situations. If you let yourself be sloppy when it doesn't really matter, then you are likely to get sloppy when it does matter, like when you're toting personal gear with a wide angle lens up front. And nobody who's ever turned in damaged gear believes the boss doesn't care. BTDT.
More can happen than just getting you camera's innards sunburned. A lens pointing up can catch stuff falling down, like rain, dirt, gravel or bird shit. You can't always know what'll happen next, or when. A lens pointing down is almost always safer for its own sake as well as the camera's. Pointing a lens upwards except to take a picture is just plain daft. The lens isn't being held in a strong grip because it's attached to a tripod/monopod that's resting on the woman's shoulder. That's where (hopefully) the strong grip is. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > mike wilson > Sent: Monday, 18 February 2008 8:11 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Published! > > > Given the type of lens (extreme telephoto) and the fully extended lenshood > protecting the narrow field of view of the front element, I think it unlikely that there > would be opportunity for the sun to cause much damage. > > Given that it is not being carried in a vice-like grip or wrapped in cotton wool, it is > probably a company lens - so why should she care? The body is probably worth > 1/10th of the value of the lens..... > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
