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philber wrote:
Hatch, a quick question, please. I am on the fence regarding the 135 APO because I need to be sure of my ability to focus it properly. For that, I need a long enough focus throw, like on the Otus 55 and 85. Can you tell me how many turns on the focus ring? Thanks!
Philippe, total 270 degrees, but as you know former 2/100 owner that this matter nothing if it's skrew-up "360 degrees from 0.5-1m and 2 degrees from 1 meter to infinity"... Don't worry, 2/135 is done better, it's about 90 degrees from 1.9m to infinity, of which about 45 degrees from 3.5 meters to infinity.
From 0.8m to 1.9m it's 180 degrees - that is a lot (at least for me) and I would not mind having shorter turn on those distances. This one will do, but it's quite slow.
In practice I can focus subjects at 25 meter distance very easily unlike 2/100 where it always takes 3-5 tries to get there due to superfast focus on large distances. Also in practice biggest issue from focusing perspective is that when I shoot without tripod it's really hard to hold the magnified part of image in subject, maybe A7mkII with it's IBIS would help to that.
Samuli
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