Hi Joe, When you test the lens please drop me a line about its performance. Cheers Alek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Wilensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:05 PM Subject: Question on SMC-FA 35mm f/2 lens and hood ...
> I just received an SMC-FA 35mm f/2 from B&H, new in the box. It's a > beautiful lens, and the manual focus feel and the width of the > focusing ring is a bit better than my FA 50/1.4 and 28/2.8, as others > have commented. My question is about mounting the tulip hood -- > unless I'm missing something completely, it seems the hood mounting > bayonet grooves on my lens aren't lined up correctly. > > The white line on my lens that is used for lining up with the white > line on the hood for mounting purposes (line them up, then rotate the > hood until it clicks into place) is located at between 2 and 3 > o'clock on the lens barrel with the front of the lens facing me. But > this causes the hood to mount quite a bit rotated from its proper > orientation, which is supposed to have the "Pentax" at the top and > the little door for rotating a polarizer at the bottom. It seems > roughly 45 degrees off from where it should be, if not a bit more. > This makes the whole point of a dedicated tulip hood useless, since > vignetting would likely occur. > > This seems to be the only physical way the hood will mount on this > lens, and the bayonet mount for the filter on the end of the lens is > not rotateable. > > Is this a manufacturing defect? Could the lens actually have been > assembled with this error? Everything else lines up (the lens mount > itself, the f/stop and focusing scale, etc.). Or am I missing > something? > > Joe > >
