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.
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've only
played around with it, taking some test images hand-held. So far, It
looks really good.
The problem: I went online to Pentax to download the manual, but they
no longer carry it. Does anyone know where I can get one.
The reason I need the manual is the lens has two controls that I don't
really understand. They are visible in the right half of this image:
http://www.photozone.de/images/8Reviews/lenses/pentax_100_28_fa/lens.jpg
.
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 this control have an "MF" setting,
when manual focus is usually selected on the camera. Is there a
difference between selecting manual focus on the lens rather than on
the camera?
Even more mysterious -- to me -- is the "clamp" dial. What does this
do, and how?
Any information or advice will be greatly appreciated.
TIA, Dan
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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