Larry, isn't there a some kind of clutch that you have to engage or disengage prior to going manual focus?
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone else have the 20/1.8? > > Optically it seems like a sweet piece of glass. Unfortunately while I needed > it last weekend, it didn't show up until Monday and I haven't had a lot of > time to play with it. > > The first thing that I noticed was that in manual focus, focusing it felt > like it was turning a motor. > > It also turns out that if the lens is in manual focus, and the camera is in > auto focus, autofocus still works, it's just that the focus ring won't turn > when the camera focuses. > > Looking on the mount, when I manually focus, the drive gear for the > autofocus will turn. > > The big problem is that this makes the lens unpleasant to manually focus, > though it works fine, it feels bad. Is this the way it's supposed to work? > Or do I have a bad copy of the lens? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
