On 1 Nov 2007 at 19:06, Ken Lin wrote:
> > Sure
> > wish Canon would provide some type of lock to prevent accidental manual
> > adjustment of focus.
> >
>
> You do realize the irony of this??
>
> The one thing that sets Canon lens apart from the 3rd-party lenses is the
> ability of Full Time Manual(FTM) focusing where the user can adjust the
> focus manually anytime after the AF has been achieved without doing anything
> else, if I remember correctly this is only on the Canon lenses, all other
> 3rd-party lenses requires one to flick a switch from AF to MF before the
> manual focusing can be accomplished, you would then have to flick the switch
> back to AF.
>
> Most Canon users considers the FTM as a positive feature. :-)
EF-M (high-end tele's, plus old 28-80/2.8-4.0, IIRC)) would solve
this problem, since the manual mode (interfering/additional, not
exclusive) can be switched off entirely.
Ideally, EF-M would be switched on/off by sensing finger
pressure....:))
(more than just accidental touching)
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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