I wonder how it would perform with the A*1200mm...

Synchronized wikipedia citations... Is that a new Olympic sport?

Mainly used for 16mm cine films.

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For many years my 28mm lens was probably my most used one on film. I'd like something similar for digital, i.e., around about 17/18mm. The K18 would be nice but they go for serious money... Unfortunately, the equivalent FoV is somewhere between the 15mm and 21mm lenses. The 12-24mm is such a stunning lens though I don't feel hard done by.

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Modern top-end zooms are such good quality these days that for most purposes (if not all!) you'd be perfectly happy with the results. The issue becomes more about size and speed. Fast top-end zooms are often big and heavy! As much as I love my DA* 50-135mm lens, it gets left at home more often than it should because I have packed a batch of older primes instead. This is partly because I prefer lenses that can be used on both my digital camera (when it is working ) and my film bodies.

K.

According to what passes for a manual the closest focus varies with focal length so perhaps it was just a way of saying "closer than 2.1m". It appears to have a very short focus throw so I am guessing manual focus will be a PITA.

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It is highly unlikely to be true macro. It is quite common for consumer zooms to be advertised as such when 'close-focusing' would be accurate. Who is going to let mere factual accuracy get in the way of a good marketing ploy?

K.

The ability to use C-mount and other lenses was always going to be one of the attractions of the Q for a certain segment of the market.

K.

Just guessing here but some macro zoom lenses will only go to the 'macro' range at either one setting or a limited range of settings. The SMC-F 35-70 for example only clicks into macro at 70mm and the Tamron 70-300 between ??180 and 300 (I cannot remember the exact lengths). My guess is that the focus ring won't go into the macro range at all focal lengths.

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Looks fun! Some of yowa yowa's are really quite convincing and nicely composed too.

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