At 12:42 PM 4/11/99 +0000, you wrote:
>A second question - My 50mm 1.4 seems to have an annoying problem
>which may either be a design fault or a specific problem with my lens.
>When the aperture is set at 1.4, the meter doesn't seem to register a
>full stop increase in light from f2.0 but rather something nearer a
>half stop. i.e the needle in the viewfinder is lower for, say, f1.4 at
>125th than it is for f2.0 at 60th. The problem seems to be with the
>lens - the little metal guide which moves to tell the camera what
>aperture is set doesn't move as much between f 2 and f1.4 as it does
>between the other stops. Do I have a duff lens or is this a universal
>problem? Or, horror of horrors (surely not), is the 1.4 actually not
>quite a 1.4?
>
>Neil.
>
>
Hi Neil,
I vote for a duff lens in this case. My meter shows me a full stop
difference between 2.0 and 1.4 with my 50/f1.4.
Joel
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