Frank Theriault commented:
> Interesting. I just got my first bayonet mount camera a few months ago,
> after having used screwmounts exclusively since purchasing my first
> Practika 30 years ago. I actually find it easier and faster to change a
> screwmount lens! No lining up little dots (which I find a real PIA in
> the dark). It's just a matter of what one is used to, I guess.
I got reasonably fast changing screwmount lenses, but a big
attraction to K-mount for me was still the speed of lens
changes. If I fumble and have to look and line things up,
yeah, it can take longer, but Pentax lenses (other than the
A35-105/3.5 which has the little white bump in the wrong
place!) go on very quickly without looking most of the time
(thanks to the aforementioned little white bump).
Thing is, in some shooting situations I change lenses a _lot_.
Especially if I'm using primes. (Moving to K-mount sped things
up two ways: not only do I change primes more quickly, but
I'm sometimes using zooms now. Of my two M42 zoom lenses, one
wasn't all that inspiring before something broke inside, and
now it's pretty much useless; the other is occasionally
convenient but only covers about a 2:1 zoom range (90-190),
so I'm still frequently unscrewing it to put another lens on.
I'd used Olympus before I got my first H3, so I knew how quick
a bayonet lens change could be while I was swapping my 55/1.8
for my 138/2.8 back and forth over and over before I got my
first K-mount body.
-- Glenn
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