Well, that’s funny April 20
I’ve rented the Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8 (on the recommendation of someone to this post) to play with for the weekend. It’s working pretty well, except I cannot get it to focus further away than about 8 feet. That is, when it is dialed to infinity, things 8 feet away are in focus.
Given what I’m up to this weekend, that won’t be a problem. The rental shop doesn’t open until 9, so I can’t call them just yet. I checked my first hunch, a close focus lens on the front of the lens, but it wasn’t that.
Manual focus or auto focus, it hits its end stop before it comes anywhere near to focussed.
Erik J. Barzeski Apr 20
And clearly you’d know if there were extension tubes on it. :-) How close can you focus it, currently?
ben Apr 20
Currently focusses to like 1-2 inches in macro mode. (Which is waaay closer than the 10.8″ in the spec.)
I’m guessing an element is out of order or in the wrong place. The image is crisp (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/benpeoples/465845997/ ), so it’s not entirely broken. I decided to just play with it for the weekend (lots of macro food pics) and see what turns up.
(Currently in Kansas City, MO)