The Tamron 60-300 focusses down to 1:1.55 at the long end. You zoom
out to 60mm, turn the focus ring fully close and it clicks into its
macro range. You then "zoom" out to focus closer and closer and
closer. As Bill told me: the subject is almost touching the front
element at its closes. You have to remove the lens hood to allow light
to fall on it.
Thanks for the Hector url.
Chris
On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 19:28 Europe/London, Boris Grigorov wrote:
…Bill Barber advised me that the 60-300 had a pretty good macro…
OK, I have to ask the elementary question: What do you mean by macro
range? I never used the macro setting on my lens (the Sigma I
recently acquired and wrote to the list how happy I am with it).
As far as I understand, macro setting allows to focus closer. Never
bothered to understand what 1:1, 1:4 etc. means, but now I am curious.
Radio France Hector is in French, you guessed right. It is a
classical station that plays decent music, not like the cheesy (insert
your favorite word choice…) they play here. I listen to it when have
to tune out the world at work.
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/hector/accueil/
Boris
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