> Canon's L lenses cater to > the experienced photographer who probably has been using lenses with the > traditional controls for many years. > > The opposite would feel VERY strange to me. > Both are fair comments, but this "seems" (my opinion only) to be stemming from the manual focusing days when one would zoom to compose first and then have to tweak the final focusing, and it does make sense to do this last bit of critical adjustment with the barrel of the lens cradled above the palm and the focus finalized with the finger tips with the focusing ring located near the front of the lens.
But these days with the AF working so well that about the only adjustment made by most users being only the zoom control (heck, that's why I traded in the A-1 and 4 manual focusing lenses), wouldn't it make MORE sense to locate the most used control near the front of the lens instead where it's more natural to control ? Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
