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Re: [OM] To infinity.. and beyond?

Subject: Re: [OM] To infinity.. and beyond?
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 23:58:28 -0700
on 4/9/02 8:39 PM, John A. Lind at jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 22:29 4/9/02, Stephen Scharf wrote:
> 
>> According to the Olympus sheet that came with my Zuiko 300mm from C.H. Ling,
>> the focussing beyond infinity is to account for thermal expansion, so Jim
>> Timpe is corret.
>> 
>> -Stephen Scharf
>> --
> 
> Yes, my 300/4.5 and several other Zuikos also focus very slightly past
> infinity.  Confirmed it with a 2X-A and 300/4.5 aimed at a full moon one
> night a couple years ago.  It's never bothered me . . . I always check
> focus even if it's on a mountain range 10 miles or more distant.  John H.
> put it well: "it's better to go 'beyond infinity' than to not reach it."
> 
> -- John

Perhaps these lenses were designed by Buzz Lightyear? "to infinity and
beyond..."
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney... 


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