Nikon 28-85mm focus question

[guitar guy]

I recently purchased a used D50 which came with a Nikon 28-85mm lens. I first noticed I could not take close up pictures when at 28mm. Not even close up, like an object 5 feet away for instance-- can't focus on it at 28mm. I brought it into the camera store and the clerk said it was because of the lens, she put a a different lens on and it worked.

I thought maybe it was just the autofocus function that wouldn't work at that focal length, close up, so I tried it on manual focus and it still won't work.

Just something about that lens?

 

[480sparky]

How close can you focus to at 28mm?

 

[guitar guy]

How close can you focus to at 28mm?

I don't have camera with me now, but I'd say it's around 10 feet or so.

 

[Derrel]

If this is your lens, and I suspect it is, then the macro mode is manual focus ONLY, in the orange range, and that goes down to 0.23 meter, or about 9.1 inches. According to this the normal close-focusing limit (meaning normal focus range, not in the macro-focusing range) is 0.8 meters, or about three feet. To get into Macro mode, you need to push that small silver button and turn...

AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-85mm f 3.5 4.5 lens group - Index Page

 

[guitar guy]

If this is your lens, and I suspect it is, then the macro mode is manual focus ONLY, in the orange range, and that goes down to 0.23 meter, or about 9.1 inches. According to this the normal close-focusing limit (meaning normal focus range, not in the macro-focusing range) is 0.8 meters, or about three feet. To get into Macro mode, you need to push that small silver button and turn...

AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-85mm f 3.5 4.5 lens group - Index Page

Ahh, thanks, looks like that's the ticket!