I had the same experience with an F 50 f:1.7. That thing would hunt and hunt and hunt! Totally worthless for AF. Needless to say, it is gone with an old SuperProgram. They were a good match. Bruce Dayton Sacramento, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Poe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: Re: Shutter; or lens: to fire or not to fire, Was: Why I won't be buying an MZ-S, and other ramblings with a rant at the very end. > M. Johnston wrote: > I would say that the best thing about a separate AF > button (which I > like, > not that I've shot much with AF in years) is that it > increases the > responsiveness of the shutter button. Every time you > hit it, it fires. > That > ameliorates the #1 annoyance/frustration of AF cameras > for me, which is > that > sometimes the camera will decide that it's not > focussed to its > satisfaction > and will not fire when you want it to. This drives me > crazy. In fact, > just > the _possibility_ of this happening drives me crazy. > > The contax G2 drove me crazy. My experience with > Pentax is that this happens with certain lenses, > rather than being a body thing. In particular, the > F70-210 SMC is guilty of not being able to make up its > mind when to let the shutter fire. Maybe it's a > faulty lens? I don't know, but it stays in the > cubard. If anybody else has had similar experiences I > would appreciate knowing if or what you ended up doing > with the lens. > Cheers, > Bob Poe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
