Tips for carrying lenses

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I want to share a few tips about carrying lenses. Protect your equipment!

1. Always have their manufacturers cups on, to protect the lens form dust particles, and other elements.

2. Always Turn the focus ring to infinite, this will protect the internal focus mechanism.

3. Always Open the Aperture to the maximum (wide open), as to protect the Iris Blades.

4. With Zooms, especially the larger ones, but all of them in general, they should be set to minimum or maximum, but never left in the middle, to avoid damage to the zoom mechanism.
 
Philip O said:
I want to share a few tips about carrying lenses. Protect your equipment!

1. Always have their manufacturers cups on, to protect the lens form dust particles, and other elements.

2. Always Turn the focus ring to infinite, this will protect the internal focus mechanism.

3. Always Open the Aperture to the maximum (wide open), as to protect the Iris Blades.

4. With Zooms, especially the larger ones, but all of them in general, they should be set to minimum or maximum, but never left in the middle, to avoid damage to the zoom mechanism.
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None of this is really applicable with modern AF lenses...
Focus rings are generally unlocked in AF mode.
Most AF lenses have their apertures 'locked' at minimum so the camera can interface with them electronically... some don't even have aperture rings at all.
Most AF-zooms have the lens-group at 'rest' midway between the two extremes - try it - you'll see the front elements go in and out - at the mid point the lens group is rearward.

Lens-caps? OK I'll give you that one.
 
Many people are still using manual lenses... Just think about new Zeiss ZF or ZE ones.
 
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Is that for film or digital camera? I have a D5000 with a Nikkor 18~105mm AF-S lens. Do I need to worry?

Sorry -- I'm a beginner... Please pardon my ignorance.
 
Philip O said:
Many people are still using manual lenses... Just think about new Zeiss ZF or ZE ones.
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No...some people are still using MF lenses - many people are using AF lenses.

Since the price of a Zeiss ZF/ZE lens is about the twice the price of a decent pro-spec Nikkor or Canon-L equivalent, I seriously doubt their use is as widespread as you'd imagine...especially since they're made in Japan by the Kyocera Corporation in their old Cosina factories where Contax cameras used to be made and just have the name 'Zeiss' on them. :cuckoo:
 
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