On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:29:01AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > Using the thumbwheel for aperture and front wheel for shutter speed works > wonderfully for me. Since getting a camera with the two control wheels I > have missed using the aperture ring exactly zero times.
That's about how I feel, too. Back in the days before the *ist-D came along (was that really 11 years ago?) we were all arguing here as to whether the putative Pentax DSLR should have the two-thumbwheel interface as found on the PZ-series cameras, or use the lens aperture ring as was done on the MZ-series bodies. I was one of those hoping for the PZ-style; of the two film bodies that I was using at the time (one PZ-1p, one MZ-S) I much preferred shooting with the PZ-1p. Much of this could be explained by the fact that I was often using longer lenses (300mm and up) or zoom lenses (where the left hand already had to adjust zoom), so I would have had to move my hand to be able to use it to adjust the aperture. Still, since I got back into photography in the '90s with that PZ-1p, I've only bought one new camera that didn't have two thumbwheels. I bought a *ist-D, but ignored the -DS, DL, and other variants until the K-10D was released. -- 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.
