Focus Oscillation in K3 iii?
Re: Focus Oscillation in K3 iii?
I just received a Pentax 70-210 mm zoom and am comparing it against two other lenses that cover that zoom range (150-450mm and 55-300mm PLM). My initial shots comparing against the 55-300 mm showed it better in terms of blur, which would be quite surprising. But when I started taking pairs of shots a few seconds apart and compared the pairs taken with identical manual settings I see what appears sharpness differences.
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Please ignore my confusing sentence above in bold face. What I was trying to say is that I expect the 70-210 mm to be better than the 55-300 mm. But this is a side issue. My question is about focus oscillation or drift causing focus to be incorrect sometimes. Not horrible, but significant enough to degrade a good lens to look worse than a lens with worse image quality.
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David Lees
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