Thursday, May 23, 2002, 6:57:55 PM, gfen wrote: g> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Chris Brogden wrote: >> if it turns out that, say, metal provides better impact absorption at any >> angle of impact from, say, 10 degrees to 70 degrees, it would be nice to >> know that.
g> All I know is the day I switched from a collapsing rubber hood to a solid, g> thick metal one I face planted the lens into a hill when I slide. g> And the metal one stopped me from having to pick pebbles out of my glass, g> and the rubber (or any flimsier material, I'm sure) would nopt have. But what about landing not into hill but into concrete? Collapsing rubber can be made quite rigid too. Also, pebbles from my glass get protected by SMC UV filters... (but let's not start a filters/nofilters theread again please <g>) Good light, Frantisek Vlcek - 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 .
