The AF button doesn't "cancel" AF altogether, it simply acts like pressing the shutter halfway.
You have to turn the focus mode lever to MF to manually focus and turn off AF. -Brendan --- Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Loveday wrote: > > <snip> > > > Things I don't like: > > > * Cancelling AF with the 'AF' button stops it > doing AF, and show "MF" in the > > finder... but doesn't disengage the motor drive. > So Manual Focusing is > > still not really possible, except with a DA-style > clutch lens > > > Hmmm - not on mine. I just tested it with the 28-105 > power zoom, and > once it's set to MF the lens focuses fine manually. > > - MCC > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
