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- From: tonya@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Tony Arnerich)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:38:02 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: 105mm f/2.8 AF Micro Nikkor lens & F3HP : SUMMARY
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- Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA
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- lakhindr@ESD.3Com.COM (Lakhinder Walia) writes:
-
- > This lens has large movements. And that changes the effective F stop
- > value as you go from Infinity to very close-distance.
- > This change shows up in 8008s' window.
-
- > I was wondering how does it show up in F3, if this lens is connected to it.
-
- The view gets darker, to which the light meter responds.
-
- > I dont think F3 "talks" to its lens like 8008s ...! I dont know of any
- > other way of finding about the effective value of F stop except asking the
- > lens itself..
-
- The only thing that the lens tells the F3 is how far down from wide
- open the aperture will be during the exposure. You'd have to use the
- math to find the effective aperture.
-
- > My question is : is F3HP fully compatible with this lens..?
-
- No. However, this lens is fully compatible with the F3.
-