You may not like it. You're entitled to your preferences, as is Rob. But it's neither ridiculous or cumbersome. In fact, it's considerably less cumbersome than an aperture ring. And that's from someone who used aperture rings for forty years. Paul On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote:
> Rob...I'm totally with you on this. > > Using a dial on a camera body to control the aperture > is nuts to me. I don't see it as an advantage either. > To me it seems cumbersome and ridiculous. > > -Brendan > > --- Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 17/09/06, Paul Stenquist >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But you no longer need the ring to set the >> aperture. The dial works >>> just fine. >> >> It might work fine, but it's not my preference, my >> preference is to >> use the aperture ring, as it is on my Mamiya and >> Leicas. I'm not happy >> that I am being steered away from my preferential >> mode of operation, >> I'm allowed not to like this and I don't see why I >> shouldn't be able >> to say so. I don't view the way that things have >> progressed as good or >> advantageous to me because they simply aren't. >> >> -- >> 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
