On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:30 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Eric Weir >>> >>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>>>> . . . . just because they're autofocus I don't have to use them as >>>>> autofocus. >>> >>> Or would I? >> >> Not if you don't want to. Who's going to make you? > > Well, yeah, but if you want to manual focus, get a manual focus lens. > > I've manually focused AF lenses (usually in low light) and it's not > the preferred way of doing things. MF lenses are nicely damped and > because they have longer "throws" (if that's the word - I'm trying to > say you have to rotate the rings more from one end of the focus range > to the other) you can be much more precise.
Thanks very much, Frank. For now I think I want to focus manually. So this bit of information is helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
