On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:33:54PM -0400, Steve Sharpe wrote: > > It's taken me three years, but I've finally figured out what those > little twirly wheels on the *istD do and now I like them. My complaint > with them is that both aperture and shutter speed are controlled with the > right hand, leaving the left with nothing to do but hold the lens, if > it's a prime. Its job used to be to twist the aperture ring. I worry that > it might find something else to twist and get me into trouble. > > I guess the solution is to only use zooms.
Now you understand :-) By the time I got my MZ-S my main lens was the 80-200/2.8, and if I wasn't using that I was using either the 300/2.8 or the 250-600. The primary task for my left hand was to steady the lens on the monopod, and maybe to tweak the zoom slightly. But generally my hand was at or near the front element or lens hood, not all the way back near the camera body. If you mainly use (short-ish) primes, your left hand may well be free to adjust the aperture, although you also need that hand if you're not using auto-focus. Nowadays, of course, there's quick-shift focus touch up as well. -- 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.
