I am certainly glad that you are physically sound enough to use a manual focus macro (or any MF lens at all). There are those of us where being visually or physically disabled have severe problems with MF lenses. I suppose it might be helpful if you looked beyond beyond yourself before calling others "ridiculous."
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, CheekyGeek <cheekyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO, autofocus on a macro lens is ridiculous. > The greatest value in macro lenses that I have seen is the Tamron SP > 90mm f2.5 (either 52B or 52BB). WHAT a lens for very little money. > You'll need the matched Tamron converter (or any good 7 element macro > converter) to reach 1:1. Alternately, use an extension tube. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.