Wieland Willker wrote:
> I am one of the remaining manual-focus-only users.
Meet another ...
> [...] The new AF lenses have only a very
> short angle from infinity to minimum
> focussing distance (usually 90 deg or smaller).
> This small angle makes it generally
> difficult to focus manually.
Your comment is most interesting as a number of people feel
similarly, although I've not seen it discussed much on the
list. Some time back there was brief discussion about focus
feel, and a couple of the list members complained that certain
MF lenses required too much turning to go from minimum focus
to infinity, specifically some of the 85mm lenses.
> I think the FA* or limited lenses
> are not any better in this respect.
I can only speak to the FA 43mm Ltd: checking my sample it
appears that the turning range is about 150- to 160-degrees.
I couldn't measure the exact angle, but it is substantially
more than 120-degrees and a bit less than 180-degrees. I
think that, and the focus feel, is one of the reasons a lot of
MF users like the Ltd lenses.
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Shel Belinkoff
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