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disengage motorized zoom lens for manual control?

Started Feb 15, 2018 | Discussions thread
inohuri Regular Member • Posts: 100
Re: disengage motorized zoom lens for manual control?

This would be very complex to do. It is a useful feature to have manual control but it really needs built that way to start with.

Bridge cameras with manual zoom are uncommon, Fuji S6000FD got it right in 2006. Strange that Fujifilm and reviewers never mention the distortion correction in jpegs. If you shoot wide in raw and then jpeg it is obvious. (I suspect the F30 and similar Fuji cams are the same but have no raw to compare.) With that and the EXIF reporting focal length there is feedback from the lens.

"Unusually for what is essentially a 'budget' camera, the S6000fd's lens has a mechanical, fluid-damped zoom control (and a manual focus ring - though this controls focus electronically). It's hard to describe how much better a manually operated mechanical zoom is than one powered by little buttons - the level of control over framing is in another league altogether."

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilms6000fd/2

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