Re: 70 - 200 L USM question
- From: "Don" <mackie.don@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:40:35 GMT
It is also useful if you are shooting say birds from brushes and there are
little bits of "stuff" blowing about within 1.2 meters or whatever, if set
to the 3 meter mark it then will not bother focussing on these closer things
hence loosing focus on the main subject.
regards
Don from Down Under
"nick c" <n-chen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Donald Gray wrote:
>> I just invested in this lens - Just viewed the first results - WOW! It
>> IS sharp and what lovely colours.... What a fantastic lump of
>> glass!!!!
>>
>> I did invest in the massively expensive tripod collar - & Glad I was
>> too... On way home, I have to go over a big (for England) hill. It was
>> just gone dusk. The mist was rising around a village in the valley.
>> 30seconds at F/25 using one of those miniature pocket tripods
>>
>> Without the tripod ring, the camera would have been too nose heavy to
>> be usable & I will have lost the shots....As it was, I am extremely
>> pleased with them...
>>
>> The question: why does this lens have a switch 1.2 metres to infinity
>> or 3 metres to infinity.
>>
>> Surely it is not in an effort to save focussing time?
>
> Surely it is meant to be used to reduce auto focusing time. < Grinning >
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