There's no significant advantage to eliminating the aperture ring other than reduced complexity. But, likewise, there is no advantage to retaining it. The camera functions just as well without it. Paul On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote:
> I agree... > As I was telling Godfrey, the loss of the aperture > ring is just crazy to me. I noticed in the question > posed by Shel about the 50mm lenses that I'm not alone > in this. Many folks wanted a 50mm for digital as long > as it came with an aperture ring. > > I'm going to have to get used to not having them I > suppose, but I don't see the advantage...I just don't > see it. > > -Brendan > > --- Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 17/09/06, Paul Stenquist >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Aperture ring? For what? >> >> You've already forgotten? It's simply one of the two >> primary controls >> that photographers have over how a photographic >> exposure is set. >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert >> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA >> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 >> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ >> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
