Hi All! Happy New Year to All!
Year 2005 ended for me with some enablement: In the morning of December 31 I received my "present": a used SMC FA-50/1.4. I didn't have much time to play with it yet, but it seems to be fine. I have one concern: when I turn the aperture ring - each step has a substantial resistance, much more substantial than that with any other lens I own, including SMC F-50/1.7. I don't know how to explain this clearly, but when I am turning the ring from one end to another one in one motion (and I don't mean the "A" setting that requires the little button to be pushed down), it feels as if I am somewhat forcing it to go through each step, while with the F-50/1.7- it also click, but has a more uniform resistance. The difference is especially noticeable when I am doing that slowly. So, the FA feels more like a rachet tool.. If I set the aperture to "A" position, and play with the lever - the operation is smooth (although just a bit noisier than that of the f-50/1.7, - but that is probably due to 8 blades as opposed to 6 blades). With the DS I don't really need the aperture ring, but I am just worrying if that's a sign for something else not being ok. So, do you have any thought and ideas if should worry about this, or how I can test what is causing this behavior (am I just paranoid)? Thank you, Igor
