I partly agree and partly don't agree with your assessment of AF lenses. It
sounds like you haven't tried enough of them to have a wide experience.
Cheap, consumer zooms tend to feel just as you describe. I have four
different ones and have tried many others. But if you were to try the FA
*85, FA *200, FA *24, FA 43 limited, all of which I have, you would find
that the feel is much different. It is not the same as an old manual focus
lens, but it is very usable. I AF less than half the time and have been
doing MF photography for 25 years and am comfortable using the high quality
AF lenses in manual focus mode. I think that perhaps high quality is really
the key issue. These days there seems to be an over-abundance of poor
quality lenses to go around. I have found that my FA * 200 is much quicker
to work with and just as precise as my A 400 5.6.
Good luck in your search,
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wieland Willker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax-list-NEW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: Manual focus
> I am one of the remaining manual-focus-only users.
> What I would find a useful information (e.g. on Boz' page) is the max
turning angle of the
> focussing ring. The new AF lenses have only a very short angle from
infinity to minimum
> focussing distance (usually 90 deg or smaller). This small angle makes it
generally
> difficult to focus manually.
> This problem keeps me off from buying any new lenses that support AF. I am
missing this
> angle in most specs. It makes many lenses almost useless for manual focus.
I think the FA*
> or limited lenses are not any better in this respect.
>
> Nevertheless I am thinking of buying one of the new Sigma 1.8/24 lenses
for astro
> purposes. I hope that focussing is not so important here. :-)
>
> Best wishes
> Wieland
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