Aaron Reynolds wrote: >On Jun 25, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > > >>Electronic aperture ring, 4/3rd's mount has no mechanical connections. >>But there are no mechanical cameras that you could mount the lens on >>anyways. All 4/3rds bodies do stop down metering with adapter-mounted >>lenses, there are no non-electronic lenses for the mount. >> >> > >I don't exactly see the advantage, then, over Pentax's implementation. > >-Aaron > > > Some prefer that interface. I find using one hand for aperture and the other to change shutter comes naturally, while using one hand to do both is more awkward.
I actually prefer the aperture ring+thumbwheel interface of the early Nikon AF bodies (I think you can shoot a PZ-series camera this way as well). Doing everything with one hand never came naturally to me, whether a two-wheel or wheel+button interface, but the thumbwheel was always quicker than a shutter dial. The DMC-L1 actually uses the same interface as the MZ-5n, with a shutter speed dial and aperture ring, both with A settings that determine mode. The L1 however allows setting shutterspeed in 1/3 stops (it has settings for 2/60 seconds, 1 through 1/800 and 1000/4000, the first and last require using the control wheel to pick the actual shutter speed, bit wierd, but looks like it will work well). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
