On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:37 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:53:41PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:50 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >>> . . . PZ . . . >> >> You forgot, David. I'm a novice. REALLY a novice. Never encountered "PZ" >> before. What is it? Is it on Stan Halpin's list? > > Power Zoom.
Thanks for the explanation, John. I can see how some of the trick zooms, like maintaining image size while subject distance changes, would be helpful, but I think I'll pass on this type of lens. I'm trying to keep my equipment set as simple and as close to manual as possible. Aperture priority is about as advanced as I want to get at this point. My first purchase in getting back into photography at the end of last year was a crude Russian Smena Symbol. It was made in the millions during the later Soviet period. It provides five settings each for aperture and shutter speed and nothing else, not even film speed. I liked the way it made me think. A couple months after I bought it I lost it. I replaced it a couple months ago, but haven't done any shooting with it, yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
