On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 30, 2008, at 12:02 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > >> Okay, one wee gripe about the *istD: the overhang >> for the pop-up flash gets in the way of the screw >> that tightens the mounting ring to hold it in one >> position -- so if I attach a tripod to the bellows, >> the camera pretty much has to be in portrait >> orientation. But do any modern cameras _not_ hang >> over the lens mount like that? > > The only DSLRs I've seen that has zero lens mount overhang is my > Panasonic L1 and its Leica Digilux 3 sibling as well as the Olympus > E-300 and E-330 models: > > <http://homepage.mac.com/godders/panasonicL1_olympus25/content/bin/ > images/large/080510_mixed_5104048.jpg> > or > http://tinyurl.com/5bx2pp > Panasonic DMC-L1 fitted with Olympus ZD 25mm f/2.8 lens and B+W lens > hood > > The Olympus E-1 also has fairly minimal lens mount overhang due to > its not having a built-in flash over the pentaprism. > > ---
The Nikon D3 also hase very minimal overhang, Nikon redesigned the prism hump to clear their new PC lenses (It lacks a popup flash as well, but older Nikon falsh-less bodies had somewhat more projection). Canon 1 series are the same. But these are in a different price category than anything else. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
