Re: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Dear Discerning Pentaxer, I like your approach. I have just made a belated new years Resolution, and I, too, shall become more discerning and discrimination. >From now on all lenses shall be checked with computer-controlled, digitally operated, multi-function test equipment for focusing torqu

Re[2]: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-05 Thread Fred
> You can never be to picky, just as you can never be too rich or too thin > And I only have a chance of being ~one~ of these - . > Like you, I don't find the difference between a good K-mount and a good > Super Tak to be that great. I seem to prefer some lenses of one type > over some of the

Re: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-04 Thread Alan Chan
>It's not the sound, really - it's the whirring ~feel~ that I don't >care for. And (despite the fact that some feel I am altogether just >too damned picky about this efect), the sensation is so slight in >the F* 300/4.5 that I really don't mind it at all. (Really!) On >the other hand, I think I

Re: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
You can never be to picky, just as you can never be too rich or too thin Like you, I don't find the difference between a good K-mount and a good Super Tak to be that great. I seem to prefer some lenses of one type over some of the other - IOW, they both feel good. We all have our preferences

Re: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-04 Thread Kenneth Waller
PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?) > Since I don't have much experience with the newer AF lenses with > hoods, my question is this: Is the hood action in the F* 300/4.5 > similar to the action with ~other~

Re: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Yep, you're too damned picky. Comes from being raised on early K-mounts and Super Taks. Fred wrote: > Also, as a (much-criticized) critic of the "whirring" manual focus > feel in some of the AF lenses, I do have to say that the AF/MF > clutch in the F* 300/4.5 (as in the FA* 85/1.4) does make f

Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)

2002-01-04 Thread Fred
Recently I picked up an F* 300/4.5 lens (with the monster tripod bracket and the unusual dedicated soft case for the lens and bracket). At first I was concerned about the lens hood behavior. Extending the hood required unscrewing the hood a bit before pulling it out (and I figured that out quick