On Sep 4, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > It's not a Macro lens, but it can focus down to 1:4 magnification > making it a useful near-macro. Macro is one of the most abused terms > out there for lens designations, very few zooms have real macro > capability, although there are a few which can do 1:2 magnification > (the real minimum to be a proper macro lens) but typically lack the > flat field projection which is a requirement for most macro work.
Thanks, Adam. About the time bidding was coming to an end on the 70-210, bidding was also coming to an end an smc a 100mm macro. I have the m version, and was tempted to go for the a, but it would have been a real extravagance for me. Perhaps another time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
