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From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: K20D focus adjustment


>I think most lenses will benefit from some fine tuning of the focal
> point. Although it remains to be seen how accurate the DA lenses
> might be. The kind of adjustments I'm making are quite fine, and the
> difference isn't critical for most subjects. About the only place
> where it comes into play is with wide-open portraits, where eye focus
> is critical. Of course, those should be manual focused anyway in the
> studio. But for situations like wedding photography or even my coffee
> shop portraits, pinpoint autofocus accuracy is an advantage. "A"
> lenses aren't autofocus, of course, so they just sit there silently
> without complaint:-).

Manual focus lenses should be more dependant on how accurately the screen is 
placed, although I 
do find myself, from time to time, using the AF confirmation with manual focus 
lenses, in which 
case, I expect focus accuracy may benefit from being tuned in with them as well.

William Robb 


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