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- From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: AF motors in lens (Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.195052.28822@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:50:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.031906.10270@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Dec23.090900.19842@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.090900.19842@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- > In <1992Dec22.190513.10742@research.nj.nec.com> lds@ccrl.nj.nec.com (Duan-Shin Lee) writes:
- >
- > >>and, in my mind, Nikon has basically orphaned it now that they realize
- > >>Canon was right to put the motors in the lenses all along. With the
- > >>money you save, you could add another lens to your system, like the
- > >>100-300 USM.
- >
- > >I don't understand why it is right to put moters in the lenses.
- > >If you have 10 lenses, it is more economical to have one motor in
- > >the camera body than to have 10 motors, one in each lense.
- > >I suppose that the advantage to put the motor in a lense is
- > >that this way the motor produces more torque to move
- > >the glass. If so, only BIG lenses need motors in them, such as
- > >the 600mm/f4. For wide angle to short telephoto lenses, the F4,
- > >N90 or even the 8008s do not focuse perceivably (at lease to me)
- > >more slowly than the Canon's. However, the extra motor in the
- > >Canon lenses (wide angles to short telephotos) is going to cost
- > >more for the buyers.
- >
- > So what you're saying is that Nikon should cater to the "budget shooter
- > group" rather than design the best possible AF for professionals? Why
- > talk about a professional camera and economics in the same breath?
- >
- > The advantage of having motors as a part of the lens is to have the
- > motor closest to where it will do the most good. Thus, you win in
-
- One of the main advantages to putting a motor in the lens rather than in
- the camera body is that you can then tailor the motor characteristics to
- the lens in use. For a 600/4 you can use a large motor with lots of torque,
- while for a 50/2 you can use a small, light, efficient motor. If you have
- to use one motor for everything from a 14mm fisheye to an 800mm telephoto
- you are going to have to sacrifice performance somewhere - either in speed,
- efficiency, size, weight, noise, accuracy or whatever.
-
- It may be slightly more expensive to put a motor in each lens, though if you
- look at recent Sigma lenses you will find that the EOS versions are not
- always any more expensive than Nikon versions (though they are more
- expensive in some cases and from other manufacturers). It may be that they
- are not intrinsically more expensive, but that they cost a little more to
- develop - hence the higher cost.
-
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