Really, Tanya, can we get the terminology right? Everyone knows it's a "thingie" not a "thingee". Sheesh. -T
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Tanya Love <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so how far do I turn the knob thingee around? There is no scale printed > on it to indicate the focus distance? > > Tan. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 11:07 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: limiter thingee.. > > What they said. When this thing starts to hunt without the limiter it can > turn into a long winter. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 19:29:09 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: limiter thingee.. > > From: "Tanya Love" >> I just saw all of the techo talk on the other thread about a >> recommended portrait lens and references to the FA 100m/2.8 macros, >> which I have, thanks to Steve, just been enabled with. >> >> Can someone put all of this stuff into fairygirl speak for me? Just >> what does that limiter thingee do anyways? > > What I understood is: > > For a LONG THROW Macro lens like the FA100/2.8, *IF* the auto-focus has to > hunt & goes all the way to infinity and back to closest focus and then to > whatever the subject distance is, it takes a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time getting > there. > > A Focus limiter limits the range over which the lens can hunt - instead of > going from closest focus to infinity and beyond, you can "limit" the range > over which it is allowed to hunt for focus - say between 1.5 meters and > infinity or such. It can hunt through this limited range much more quickly > than it can through the entire focus range. > > Apparently most of the long throw is in the last bit going down to closest > focus. > > -- > 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. > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
