Thanks Bruce. I can't imagine that shooting wide open with this fast a lens is possible without fine focus adjustment. Very few screw drive lenses are perfectly accurate right out of the box.
On Dec 28, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > *Very* nice, Paul. > > Now I really must do the cal thing. Darn! I thought I had found some > spare time for testing my redeployed foot stool and reading. > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> When I posted a Christmas pic of Grace I noted that it appeared I had missed >> on setting the fine focus adjustment on my FA 50/1.4. It was obvious that it >> was front focusing. Adjusted it again today -- with a new target that >> precludes focusing on the wrong line. Then I shot Grace and her Christmas >> present at f1.4. The focus is on her left eye. The FA 50/1.4 is a darn good >> lens when its calibrated. (Mine came in at -4.) While the K-3 delivers more >> DOF than would a 24 x 36 camera, I find it delivers enough softness in the >> foreground and background to make me happy. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17637421 >> >> Paul >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
