is your copy of nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S has excessive play in manual focus ring (turns all the way around-both ways)?
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ALL AF capable lenses that i've ever touched will allow you to rotate it past the two places where it should stop. The only lense i've ever handled that had a proper mechanical stop was made by Zeiss, i love them!
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Not sure about excessive play. It does turn all the way around. Basically, when it gets to the end of its travel (in either direction), there's a small sound (mechanical, not electronic). The ring keeps turning after that, but it's not doing anything to the focus. As soon as you turn back the other direction, it immediately starts affecting the focusing. If you don't turn it past the end, though, it doesn't have any wiggle room (ie: where you can move the focus ring without the focus changing) at all, which is what I would define as excessive play.
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The focusing ring does turn around all the way in both directions. The reason for this is to provide an easy manual focus over-ride. After autofocus, if you want, you can turn the manual focus ring for fine adjustment or for focusing on something else and the design lets you do this quite easily. This is what it is designed to do and it works perfectly and easily...
1005555
As others have stated it does "pause and click" but then continues to rotate. My 18-200 Nikon lens does the exact same thing, 3rd party lens does not.
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My lens has a Focus motor but I have a Canon version. So I don't know about Nikon's errors.
968477
It's an autofocus lens. There is an outer ring that pushed in one direction will be manual focus only. Either pull the ring closer or push farther away and you should get autofocus.
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You may need to put the camera/lens in manual focus to take the custom white balance "shot" as auto focus often will fail and prevent the white balance reading with the disc close in front of the lens.
35284
For some reason, Canon seems to use FULL TIME Continuous AF - which is active even when you're not touching anything - and turned it on by default. Very annoying feature. I didn't realize this either until I popped on a noisy EF lens and it just wouldn't stop auto-focusing. I suspect Canon decided this would somehow make the camera "easier to use".
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I suppose it has nothing to do with the cameras and all to do with that particular lens. For the price of the 50mm 1.4G plus it being a prime lens I figured it would focus super quick. It's funny that you bring up the 35mm 2.0 D lens having problems. I own that lens also and mine focuses just fine and much faster than the 50mm 1.4G. I'd love to hear what you find out from Nikon about this problem.
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No, I love this lens. I havent noticed excessive vignetting, and it works fine in continuous auto-focus. I am shooting with a Nikon D300S and have been using the lens for a couple of months.
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It is a noisy lens, but so is the 50mm f/1.4. When back focusing it sounds a bit like a small electric toy car (it doesn't have an ring ultrasonic motor) and when locking focus there is a small click like sound. That's perfectly normal.
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I have the gf3 and mine will say that if I have it on autofocus. Put the focus in manual and click away after getting the focus, shutter, iso etc how you want for your photo. Fun lil lens. Ive gotten some great shots with this.
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The lens has a switch between manual focus and auto focus. It has a sharp focus. It's is much better and faster focus than my Canon 85 mm f1.4. I love it. Not sure if I answered your question tho. It has IS and close focus (the 85 does not have either!)
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I think you are right here. I don't believe it is a lens problem as I have see this problem across a couple of lens. I did two things that seem to make a different, the first was I completely reset all the camera setting and second thing I did was up grade the camera fireware from version 1.0. 4. to version 1.0. 9. This seems to have made a difference.
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Yes and no. There have been a few alarming SDM/Autofocus no-work moments, but a remount of lens and camera on/off has always fixed them immediately. We both use this lens all the time, so counting the one I smashed, we have direct experience with 3 of them.
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Do not overlook the need to turn OFF the Focus Check setting! Realize that the default setting slows the AF down markedly. If this setting is left on, it will result in wandering focus ...
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I have the same problem with the autofocus for video recording (even when set to "Full AF"). It occurs mostly during zooming in and not as much when zooming out. Sometimes, after zooming in, it will lose the focus and then regain it or not at all at times. This problem has occurred in bright light and sun outdoors and indoors in decent and dim light.It's too bad since the quality (color and clarity) seems excellent.
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Cheryl - some time ago I bought a "slightly used" lens from an Amazon vendor. It would not autofocus in live mode on my Nikon D5100. For some time I thought this was a problem between the camera and lens, but I finally consulted Tamron and they said it would need expensive repair. Amazon was gracious let me return the lens. In manual focus it took wonderful shots - but I have no way of knowing if you are talking about this same particular lens.
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This seems odd. I've not thought that before of this lens. I shot part of a wedding ceremony with this lens. You are referring to the vr or the focus motor? Do you have any other lenses with VR? How does it compare?
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Yes. But you SHOULD deactivate the autofocus system on your camera body first (usually a lever just below the lens lock release) this will retract the slot driver that spins to focus the lens. If you want (NOT RECOMENDED) you could just over power the motor and spin the focus ring. I've done this at high stress moments and when the camera isn't cooperating. It's probably very bad for the lens' focus gears and the motor driver in the camera body though.