On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: > distance, but I am getting into even closer ranges with the lens spinning > around to show a little flower symbol (if this makes any sense), that I have > always taken to indicate a macro function?
On the American Pentax site and under Literature->Download Manuals you can find a generic leaflet on FA lenses. I copy from page 20. Note on Tulip mark The zoom lens provide with the tulip mark on the focusing ring that enable to take a picture at closest distance as a fixed focal length lens, even set at wide-angle position. However, at the edges of picture may be darkened due to reducing brightness of image field. This and weight are the advantages of the FA28-80/3.5-5.6 over the F28-80/3.5-4.5; the latter is macro, but at 80. HTH, Kostas (wondering if the non-PZ version is lighter without loss of performance, on the premise that, as you said, PZ is a gimmick for a few but not for me)
