Thanks Boris!
Dan Matyola
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
> Excellent price for an excellent lens. Congratulations on your enablement,
> Dan.
>
>
> On 12/5/2012 4:48 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
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>> After all the great advi
Thanks very much, Darren. That is EXACTLY what I was seeking.
What a great bunch of helpful people on this list!
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
> In answer to the original question, here are the appropriate page
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On 05/12/2012 1:56 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
> sorry to say it, but this lens sounds like an ergonomic nightmare.
You haven't used one. S
Excellent price for an excellent lens. Congratulations on your
enablement, Dan.
On 12/5/2012 4:48 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
After all the great advice I received from this list on selecting a
Macro lens for my K-r (and future K-5), I made my decision. I decided
to go old school -- and cheap
On 05/12/2012 1:56 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
sorry to say it, but this lens sounds like an ergonomic nightmare.
You haven't used one. Save your judgments for what you know about.
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On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Leon Altoff wrote:
> The controls do this:
> Clamp: as stated by others stops the lens from moving when pointing it
> down (or up). It puts a drag on auto focus which will lock it anyway.
> Use it if you need to, I normally left it off.
I'll just highlight here that
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Subject: Re: Advice on Use of Macro Lens
If you are using auto-focus, then you may want to have it search from
infinity to the front of the lens (Full Range) or you may want the AF engine
to work only on finding focus within the immediate neighborhood of the front
of the lens (
Hi,
I like this lens too, though the hunting did annoy me. I've changed
over to the smaller WR version for most of my current work.
The controls do this:
Clamp: as stated by others stops the lens from moving when pointing it
down (or up). It puts a drag on auto focus which will lock it anyway.
If you are using auto-focus, then you may want to have it search from infinity
to the front of the lens (Full Range) or you may want the AF engine to work
only on finding focus within the immediate neighborhood of the front of the
lens (Limit). Presumably if you are manual focusing you won't be
For the most part, autofocus doesn't work well for macro. You're better off
focusing manually, particularly when shooting off a tripod. You'll have to do
that often with macro to get enough depth of field. Or when shooting handheld,
use autofocus to get close, clamp the focus, then move the cam
the clamp is for Manual Focus mode to stop focus creep when you are
eg, holding the camera lens down. The limit is for AF mode to stop
the lens hunting all the way through the focal length to try and
focus. I think the AF/MF setting overrides the camera's control but I
am awy from home so can't l
Dan,
1. Get the image in macro focus as you want and CLAMP it down so it
doesn't creep out of focus.
2. I've never used it, but limiter stops that annoying behavior of
hunting from infinity to minimum focus for the right spot.
And really old school is the A100/2.8 Macro...
Regards, Bob S.
On Tu
On Dec 4, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> From the reviews, I understand that the lens "hunts" a lot in
> autofocus mode. The "focus range" control apparently alleviates that
> problem, by limiting the rage of focus. I am not clear, however, how
> to use the control. Also, why does
After all the great advice I received from this list on selecting a
Macro lens for my K-r (and future K-5), I made my decision. I decided
to go old school -- and cheap.
I found a used smc Pentax FA 100mm 1:2-8 Macro for $338 including
shipping. It is certainly well built (and heavy). So far, I'
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