Shel - I have a 5n with the kit 28-80 AF zoom and a Tamron 70-300 AF zoom.
Most of the time both work fine. It can hunt in some low light situations, but if you switch to "spot focus" so it only uses the center AF sensor it reduces that behavior significantly. A couple of situations where I've had it hunt: If you're trying to focus on a white wall in low light, it may hunt. If there is any texture in the wall at all, it will probably work much better. Then again, other than playing with the autofocus, I've never really needed to photograph a blank wall in low light. One subject that tends to confuse it and other autofocus systems is a closeup of a very small item with a lot of other targets in the background. Like a closeup of a small flower on a bush where several branches at varying distances fall in the range of the autofocus sensor. Again, the spot autofocus reduces the confusion. After a while, I just left the spot autofocus on most of the time. You can also focus on something else at a similar distance and lock in the focus by pushing the shutter button half way down. See you later, gs On 7/14/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This weekend I'm scheduled to pick up a ZX (or is it MZ?) 5n. A list > participant kindly offered to loan it to me in order to use the auto > bracketing feature, which may be helpful in a project here. I'm also > expecting an auto focus lens to be delivered some time soon (which is just > a coincidence). > > So, here's the question: Does auto focus need some contrasty item on which > to focus. If, for example there were two solid colored objects one behind > the other, and I wanted to focus on just one of them, say the closer of the > two, would the focus work properly? I'd like to try out the lens while the > camera is still available to me. > > > Shel > > >
