I was skeptical of that figure but that's what it said. When I first
tried it out, I was sitting down. I zoomed around the room with it and
then zoomed down at my feet and then into close-focus and up my leg
until I lost fine focus, right below my knee! Being muchly a macro type
shooter, I just knew, right then, that this lens would be one of the
favorites for me.
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Frank Ernens wrote:
>
> Rand wrote about the 65-200 f/4
>
> > But, to me, the really great feature was the 1.2m
> > close focus feature, which they put on the 200mm end of the zoom range.
>
> Actually, it focusses down to 1.2m at all focal lengths
> and to 0.85m at 200mm. But you're right, having close focus
> (so marked, without the usual misleading "macro" claim) at the
> long end is a very good feature. Through the viewfinder it looks
> as though it will perform well on a 20mm tube in the 200mm close-focus
> range down to 1:2, although I haven't actually tried it on film
> yet.
>
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