Please, Fujifilm, give us a 2.4/60 macro Mk II with fast/silent AF and WR !
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Re: Please, Fujifilm, give us a 2.4/60 macro Mk II with fast/silent AF and WR !
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Hi,
I too would like to see an upgrade to the 60mm. I really like the lens, but it's AF is a bit dated. The difficulties would lie in the details of any re-design.....
- The 60 uses a combination of internal and external focus. I would like the lens to stay at 1:2 because it keeps it small and light and there are other options for 1:1 and closer. (I've got three other macro lenses. All are heavier than the 60mm.)
- I'd like to see faster AF and focus limiters.
- I'd like also to see sealing, but this is difficult with a lens that focuses externally. I hope they don't go to IF - this always seems to reduce working distances in macro lenses. (The 60mm with both tubes has a slightly longer working distance at 1:1 than the 80mm at 1:1, despite the longer FL and the high magnification, because it uses extension not optical trickery to get there.) NB that the Signa 70 Art macro is an external focus lens.
- And by no means least..... Fuji can we please have a decent sized filter thread (say 52mm) rather than fiddly little 39mm filters. Some macro accessories aren't made in 39mm. Using step-up rings with the 60mm requires an extra spacer to avoid lens errors when you turn the camera off - otherwise the step up ring hits the recessed face of the lens.
Regards,
Rod
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