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Zoom lens not behaving.

Started Nov 28, 2012 | Discussions thread
random78 Regular Member • Posts: 288
Are you confusing zoom and focus rings?
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Its not clear what you are trying to do here. I am sure you are aware that the zoom and focus rings  have completely different purposes. If you want to zoom in you have to use the zoom ring. The focus ring is there if you want to focus manually and the magnified view that you see is to help you in determining critical focus. This is why the magnified goes away once you are done focusing.

Also camera doesn't allow you to focus manually in regular AF mode, so if you are getting the magnified view then your camera must be set to either manual focus mode or DMF mode. You might want to make sure that it is not set to MF mode as the camera won't autofocus in that mode.

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