John, You would have to ask.;-) I don't know whether they did and I don't
know why they would *if* they did. The guy just said that his FE2
over-focused (or was it under-focused?), that he believed his camera was
typical and Nikon intended it to be that way, and that he manually
compensated!
What occurred to me is that my best shots with my Nikon gear tended to be
those in which I focused hyperfocally; tightly focused, wide-open shots
were rarely tack sharp for me. But I use a better tripod now and use the
self-timer regularly, which makes a huge difference with Oly gear, and I
presume it would make the same difference if I used both with the FE2.
Maybe I'll burn a test roll to see what happens. A few shots of a ruler
from a 45 degree angle with the 55/2.8 micro would tell the tale.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
At 04:36 PM 4/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Joel,
>I'm probably missing something obvious, here, but why in the world would
>they do something like that?
>John P.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:35 PM
>Subject: [OM] OT: Nikon AF and Grumpy (was OM2000 flash, etc.)
>
>
>> I wonder whether Nikon AF is by intention close but not right on. About
>> the time I left the Nikon list, there was a report that Nikon had
>> deliberately designed the FE2, and perhaps other cameras, either to over-
>> or under-focus ever-so-minutely. One owner said that he consistently
>> focused and then (I think) backed off just a little and got slightly
>better
>> results. I consider this no better than a rumor, but it affected me to
>the
>> extent that I determined that I was not committed enough to Nikon and the
>> FE2 to test to see whether the claim played out or not. I pretty much
>> switched over completely to Oly sometime after that. I've always gotten
>> better results with Oly than Nikon, but I've also improved my technique at
>> the same time. I guess there might be a connection though. :)
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