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As those following the F3HP thread will have read, I have an F4S that has been serving as a doorstop on my barn door for a couple of years, but I keep tripping over the thing and am fed up with the time I'm spending in A&E getting my toes reset, so I thought I'd put a film through it to see how I got on. Fortunately my brother has a forklift truck, so with his help we were between us able to get the camera elevated to the point where I could get the strap around my neck.
Well, to cut a long story short, having spent a further afternoon in hospital having my forehead stitched where it had hit the front of the forklift as the weight transferred to my neck, several sessions at the chiropractor to deal with the compression of my spinal column, and 6 weeks of intensive upper-body training at the gym, I have now finally got the knack of carrying the camera, and can even raise it to my eye. Unfortunately, though, I can't get the autofocus to work properly, except with my more modern DSLR lenses, which I can't use as they don't have an aperture ring, and anyway they're APS-C format.
I'm using two early AF lenses, a 28-70 f3.5-4.5 AF-D, and a 24-120 3.5-5.6 AF-D. Whatever setting I use, the AF hunts, and seems unable to find focus.
Any thoughts?
Well, to cut a long story short, having spent a further afternoon in hospital having my forehead stitched where it had hit the front of the forklift as the weight transferred to my neck, several sessions at the chiropractor to deal with the compression of my spinal column, and 6 weeks of intensive upper-body training at the gym, I have now finally got the knack of carrying the camera, and can even raise it to my eye. Unfortunately, though, I can't get the autofocus to work properly, except with my more modern DSLR lenses, which I can't use as they don't have an aperture ring, and anyway they're APS-C format.
I'm using two early AF lenses, a 28-70 f3.5-4.5 AF-D, and a 24-120 3.5-5.6 AF-D. Whatever setting I use, the AF hunts, and seems unable to find focus.
Any thoughts?
