2010/9/10 David Savage <[email protected]>: > > Making a lens have "a little less in the way of macro abilities?" > means completely redesigning the lens optics.
not necessarily, if they omit the long throw portion of the focus drive helix they save a few cents on the barrel and can use the same glass with a longer minimum focal distance. it would be completely senseless though given that to compute an optical formula is probably cheaper than to design a barrel so I think it is more likely a formula with less elements... either way it looks like a somewhat pointless offering to me but who knows what they know that I don't Cheers Ecke ----------------------------------------- Cameras don’t shoot people. Photographers shoot people. -- 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.
