Simple. You pick he aperture ahead of time. If the telephoto is
fairly sharp wide open that's the aperture you're most likely to use
anyway. You need the fastest shutter speed available as long lenses are
of necessity slower if they're reasonably handy anyway.
How did anyone get good photos using preset long lenses? They planned
out what they wanted to do. You didn't use a really long lens with the
caviler attitude that you could with with a lens int the wide angle to
short/moderate telephoto range.
On 10/18/2010 12:33 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:07:23PM -0400, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I never really noticed the open wheel thing on the MZ-S because I
always used the aperture ring. As a matter of fact, I never (at the
time) got why anyone would want to use a body-based wheel for that.
Now I understand but i'm really not convinced that it's that big an
upgrade. I know you can remap the wheels but I never do.
Try adjusting aperture when manually focussing a long telephoto lens
(and steadying it on a monopod, or panning on a tripod). You find
that you need one hand on the body, one hand at the front of the
lens (for focus and/or direction), and one hand on the aperture ring
(not to mention one hand on the zoom control if it's a zoom lens).
Another big benefit comes if you like to use Hyper Program mode.
With a MZ-S control style you can't switch from aperture priority
to shutter priority in a single step; you need to first switch to
full program mode (by putting the lens to the "A" setting); until
you do that you get manual exposure, not shutter priority.
The flexibility of the control wheel assignment pays off if you
like to adjust sensitivity - you don't need a third control; you
can just map the two free variables you select to the two control
wheels, and let the camera adjust the third one as necessary to
get the desired exposure.
The big ergonomic plus of the MZ-S for me was the the way that flat
body-grip combo fit in my hand. I suppose that is the same thing Bob
was alluding to.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM, John Francis<[email protected]> wrote:
It's a very personal thing. ?Ever since the PZ cameras came out,
Pentax users have been split between those who like the aperture
controls on the lens and those who like the controls on the body.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Igor Roshchin wrote:
It was ZX-5n (MZ-5n in Europe) that brought me to Pentax, -
thanks to its ergonomic design - with the aperture ring
and shutter speed knob that could be controlled while blindfolded.
(no wheel crap that Nikons had).
Interestingly, I had ~90% success rate of shooting "from the hip"
with ZX-5n,<5% with *ist DS, and ~60-70% with K-7.
While I am used to the wheels now, I think I would still prefer the
knobs.
Igor
Sun Oct 17 10:01:12 CDT 2010
Adam Maas wrote:
For me it's the Maxxum 7, not the MZ-S. For some reason I've just
never really gelled with the Pentax 35mm film camera's (the LX came
the closest, followed by the PZ-1p).
The funny thing is that the K-7 is one camera I love the ergonomics
on. IMHO it's FAR better than any of the Pentax 35mm film cameras (in
fact it handles very similarly to the Maxxum 7, which it also
distinctly resembles).
-Adam
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