jonoslack
Active member
Hmm
Well, me and Armanius don't like going to the dentist, and having the quietest dSLR there is, and then attaching something to it which focuses back and forth sounding like a dentist drill is not amusing.
The culprit is the Pentax 100 macro WR with it's screwdriver motor. Mine was up for sale, but obviously the rest of the world has heard about this problem, so nobody offered to buy it.
Having re-evaluated the Zeiss 50 f1.4, I thought I'd try a bit of lateral thinking with the 100 WR.
First of all I set it to manual focus - fine, it's perfectly easy to focus manually, but unfortunately the AF button no longer activates AF.
So then I tried putting it back on AF, but doing the first bit of focusing manually, then a half press of the shutter completes the job - no hunting back and forth, just a teeny zzt and it's in focus!
Phew . . . so that's not for sale now either . . . It's possible that the Zeiss 100 f2 macro is better - but it's exactly half the weight, about a third of the price, and it does have AF (kindof).
all the best
Well, me and Armanius don't like going to the dentist, and having the quietest dSLR there is, and then attaching something to it which focuses back and forth sounding like a dentist drill is not amusing.
The culprit is the Pentax 100 macro WR with it's screwdriver motor. Mine was up for sale, but obviously the rest of the world has heard about this problem, so nobody offered to buy it.
Having re-evaluated the Zeiss 50 f1.4, I thought I'd try a bit of lateral thinking with the 100 WR.
First of all I set it to manual focus - fine, it's perfectly easy to focus manually, but unfortunately the AF button no longer activates AF.
So then I tried putting it back on AF, but doing the first bit of focusing manually, then a half press of the shutter completes the job - no hunting back and forth, just a teeny zzt and it's in focus!
Phew . . . so that's not for sale now either . . . It's possible that the Zeiss 100 f2 macro is better - but it's exactly half the weight, about a third of the price, and it does have AF (kindof).
all the best