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Default Fun new camera lens...

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/3/16 9:10 AM, True North wrote:
BTW. Notice that pancake lens has a metal bayonet fitting. The
reasonably priced Nikon telephoto I bought has plastic. Not crazy about
that, I'll just have to be careful installing and removing from the camera.


Most of the camera plastics are pretty tough.


You want the lens to come off easy when dropped, not destroying the camera.
The large commercial video cameras always had a Shear ring.