Yes, in a sense. That lens produced some striking macros for me. Had needle sharp success at f/32 in macro mode, especially when attaching a close-up filter. Loved, but sold it several years back when converting to AF digital.
Jack --- On Sat, 9/4/10, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Eric Weir <[email protected]> > Subject: Does my 70-210 have macro capabilities or not > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 11:16 AM > > Another naive question from me: I just took delivery of an > smc a 70-210 f4 zoom that I won off eBay for $77. It was not > described as a macro lens, nor is it indicated to be such at > the front of the barrel. On the right side of the distance > scale, however, there is a green line with "macro" in green > letters above it. Is this a macro lens or not? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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. > -- 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.

