i tend to agree with you when in a teaching mode - it is much easier to understand how an aperture works by taking off the lens and looking through it while rotating the aperture ring. And in some styles of shooting, using the ring can be real handy. I shot that way for many years way back in the screw mount days coming forward. But once you get the concept, whether you twist a ring or spin a dial, doesn't really make much difference. I think it has more to do with what is easiest and quickest to use. Sometimes that is related to the equipment itself. A large lens that your left hand is already supporting is naturally right about where the aperture ring would be - kind of a no brainer to use it there. But a small lens, can be a real pain to squeeze your hand in there to move the ring. I have also worked with a few lenses where the ring was getting clunky to move - probably breaking down inside - then it is not very good. Also the speed of shooting can make a difference - whe n I shot weddings sometimes things moved along pretty quickly and you wouldn't want to be slowed down - the dials were quicker. But when shooting scenics or something that requires much thoughtfulness sometimes the forced aperture ring can make you a bit more careful.
I guess in the end, if you are a seasoned photographer you can work with anything and you will gravitate towards equipment that works most easily in the environment that you prefer to shoot in. I do prefer to see the aperture value lit up in the display rather than the little window of the old film cameras - in low light they were not very easy to see. It is also nice in the exif data to see what the aperture shot at is. Use the aperture ring and that data is not captured. Some ramblings, but I can see merit in both sides of the argument. -- Bruce Sent from my iPad > On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:39 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > If one had a working aperture ring, one could set up the camera in manual > mode to have three dedicated controls a wheel for shutter, a wheel for ISO, > and the aperture ring for well you know. Maybe you don't shoot in manual > exposure mode as much as I do. > > I've also have an easier time explaining the relationship between those three > exposure parameters and what they do if lenses actually had aperture rings. > > I know that back in the film era, a couple of new Canon owners had a hard > time with the concepts when I tried to explain using their Rebels as examples > but they got it right away when I hauled out my LX. > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
