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- From: mikec@spider.co.uk (Mike Coren)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: EOS lens list
- Summary: 28-105mm USM can focus down to 0.5 meters.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.112342.27983@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 11:23:42 GMT
- References: <5360837@hplsla.hp.com>
- Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <5360837@hplsla.hp.com> barryg@hplsla.hp.com (Barry Gunn) writes:
- >
- >I do use the close focus distance information when choosing one lens over
- >another. And as I stated in another post, the close focus distance of the
- >28-105 is listed as 2.3ft in my Canon brochure(sp?). Could someone who
- >owns one or has seen one, please confirm this? If the close focus is
- >really .5 meters, I'd be alot more exited about it.
- >
-
- According to the specifications given in the instructions that come with the
- 28-105mm USM, the close focusing distance is in fact 0.5m. I haven't actually
- measured this, but I have held my hand out in front of the camera to see how
- close it can focus, and this seems about right.
-
- > | _
- > |[o] Barry Gunn x2281
- > /|\ barryg@lsid.hp.com
-
- Mike
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