On Apr 29, 2010, at 05:06 , eckinator wrote:
BTW big pain with the 16-50 is when you don't put on the cap quite right you can slide it right over the front element. That is poor design in my book.
I'm not happy with the design of most of P's caps. Having the recess and pinch in the center is a good idea, but it's ruined by extending the movable tabs all the way out to the edge. On my longer lenses, the caps keep getting knocked off by bumping into things.
Oh yeah and if Pentax were smart, they'd put a front element bayonet mount on their lenses so you could just replace as needed.
Good outside the box thinking. But optical path and resultant complaints would be compromised. Unless you are referring to the lens CAP, in which case I like the Pentax 67 bayonet caps. Not gonna knock them off. The downside is of course filters must be bayonet too, or the tenuous combo Bay with threads that get chewed up, or chew up your filters putting them on. And of course the metallic dust on the front lens element after a while.
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