Excellent points, JCO (both in this post, and your last one about cross-threading).
I remember as a teenager, before I bought my first SLR, taking a photography course at a local camera shop. Bayonet mounting was considered "state of the art" back then. Our instructor suggested that one real disadvantage of threadmount was the possibility of crossthreading. That being said, I've never come close to doing it; neither have I heard of anyone else doing it. Still, the criticism continues, despite evidence to the contrary. BUT, I had forgotten until I read your post, how easy it is to drop lenses while "spinning" them on, thinking that the threads had engaged, then letting go of the lens. I learned the hard way, long ago, dropping a nice Soligor 200mm lens I was mounting on my Praktica. Ah, the follies of youth... regards, frank "J. C. O'Connell" wrote: > It doenst take very long to mount a screwmount lens BUT when youre > spinning it around in the beginning, before the threads start to > catch, it IS much easier to drop the lens compered to K mount. > JCO > - -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
