Michael Bergstrom wrote:
Brief introduction: I'm a long-time lurker on the mail-archive version
of this list. I subscribed for a very brief period a couple of years
ago, made some inane postings and rapidly retreated back to lurkdom. I
failed to unsubscribe by the favorite 'reply to the digest with
Unsubscribe in the subject line' method, I'll have to try that next
time.
If you can wait for one with plenty of long posts that would be even
better. 8-)
My question is in regards to a SMCP-F 17-28 fisheye I just received
from KEH, a 'bargain' condition lens. It is very clean of course and
seemed fine mechanically but I've found that the focus is pretty far
out of whack. It focuses well beyond infinity at all focal lengths.
At 17mm it's at infinity focus at an indicated 1.7 feet. At 28mm it's
at infinity focus at an indicated 4 feet. The minimum focus distance
at 17mm seems to be about 4-5 feet and for 28mm about 1.5 feet. It is
extremely vari-focal.
Is this a straight return to KEH or does anybody know of any quirks
with this lens that would cause these effects?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
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