The point is that it shouldn't have to be one way or the other, it would be little effort to make it available, there was aperture ring feedback on the lowliest of film camera bodies. It was removed simply to make using old lenses a less attractive proposition.
On 19 September 2014 09:00, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
