On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jan Steinman wrote:
:>From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:>
:>Does anyone know why the Oly shutter speed control was designed to be a
:>ring around the lens rather than a dial somewhere else? It has always
:>seemed an awkward feature of an otherwise perfect camera...
:
:I guess it's all what you are used to -- I think it's a wonderful
:ergonomic improvement over the traditional "knob on top" design.
:
:Most people who object to it aren't holding their camera optimally.
:Rest the bottom of the camera in the palm of your left hand, and your
:thumb and first finger very easily and naturally adjust the shutter
:speed. It's the folks you see focusing with their palm outward who
:have trouble with the shutter speed ring.
If you've got long nimble fingers, you can right-hand-solo for everything
in a pinch. At Kimberely (sp?) Crest, I reach up and pulled down a branch
with a huge magnolia in bloom. Inside it was a bee, running around. With
my right hand, I managed to turn on the meter, extend the macro lens out,
stop it down, adjust the shutter, frame, advance, shoot, and repeat the
excercise to be safe. All to get the bee in the flower :-) Waiting for PSP
right now, and I'll upload the pix. If I let the branch go with my left
hand (I had to stand on my toes to pull it down), the bee would most
certainly fly off.
/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
--
"And time yet for a hundred indecisions / And for a hundred visions and
revisision." --/Prufrock/
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