Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-26 Thread Carlos Royo
Anthony Farr escribió: The early Pentax DSLRs had IR cutoff filters in front of their imaging sensors that nevertheless transmitted enough near IR light to make a useful IR exposure with an R-72 or similar filter. Can you assert that the IR cutoff filter over the AF sensor is more absolute in

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-26 Thread Beaker
On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:29 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins Subject: Re: K20D back focus I've never really noticed any back/front focusing issues, but you folks are making me paranoid. Is there a good kind of shot for testing this? I'm

RE: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Anthony Farr
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Sullivan Sent: Monday, 25 February 2008 4:21 PM To: PDML Subject: K20D back focus Reading the promo literature on the K20D, I noticed a new feature. The camera has the ability to store adjustments for backfocus

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread mike wilson
From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading the promo literature on the K20D, I noticed a new feature. The camera has the ability to store adjustments for backfocus (or forward) for 20 lenses. The claim is that all the DA lenses are fine, but others may need adjusting. Any ideas on

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Carlos Royo
Anthony Farr escribió: The difference between IR focus and visible wavelength focus is not constant from lens to lens. Different designs of the same focal length can have different IR focus corrections, and the correction is not necessarily proportional when comparing lenses of different

RE: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Anthony Farr
The early Pentax DSLRs had IR cutoff filters in front of their imaging sensors that nevertheless transmitted enough near IR light to make a useful IR exposure with an R-72 or similar filter. Can you assert that the IR cutoff filter over the AF sensor is more absolute in its prohibition of IR

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
I think it's more likely that the sensor's focus plane is more accurate rather than tighter than that of film. The focal point is the focal point. And since film is somewhat curved, it can never be totally accurate. Paul On Feb 25, 2008, at 3:58 AM, mike wilson wrote: From: Bob Sullivan

was Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Roman Melihhov
I'm most positive that Izumi Taniguchi who contributed allot to explaining tips and tricks of K10D shall cover back focus adjustments issue for K20D as soon as camera shall get on production lines. See Digiichi website here - http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/special/digiichi/ One, -- K100D

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread mike wilson
A better way of saying what I was trying to From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/02/25 Mon AM 11:26:58 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: K20D back focus I think it's more likely that the sensor's focus plane is more accurate rather than

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Desjardins
indicator or would other conditions be better? mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/25/2008 3:53 PM A better way of saying what I was trying to From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/02/25 Mon AM 11:26:58 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: K20D back focus I

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-25 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins Subject: Re: K20D back focus I've never really noticed any back/front focusing issues, but you folks are making me paranoid. Is there a good kind of shot for testing this? I'm thinking of using the 50 1.4 and 135 2.8, wide open, to take

K20D back focus

2008-02-24 Thread Bob Sullivan
Reading the promo literature on the K20D, I noticed a new feature. The camera has the ability to store adjustments for backfocus (or forward) for 20 lenses. The claim is that all the DA lenses are fine, but others may need adjusting. Any ideas on why this might be? Do some lenses transmit more of

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bob Sullivan Subject: K20D back focus Reading the promo literature on the K20D, I noticed a new feature. The camera has the ability to store adjustments for backfocus (or forward) for 20 lenses. The claim is that all the DA lenses are fine, but others

Re: K20D back focus

2008-02-24 Thread David Savage
At 02:38 PM 25/02/2008, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob Sullivan Subject: K20D back focus Reading the promo literature on the K20D, I noticed a new feature. The camera has the ability to store adjustments for backfocus (or forward) for 20 lenses. The claim