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Subject: [OM] Re: New Manual Focus Lens
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:25:22 +1000
On 28/03/2007, at 3:57 PM, Thomas Clausen wrote:

> The 40/2.8 lives semi-permanently on my *istD -- it's not much bigger
> than a lens-cap ;)

It's a shame that Pentax don't make a 'thin' body so that you have a  
pocket SLR - like the old M series bodies with the pancake lens.

> The DA ltd. have a focus mechanism that allows an "interesting" combo
> of AF and MF: let the camera do AF, but one may fine-tune the focus
> manually afterwards without fiddling with switches etc. That's their
> strength against the FA ltd.

That's a proper pro feature - Canon L lenses do it.

Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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