bencbarbour
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Hey guys,
Fairly new to photography here so bare with me. I've just bought a used Kitstar 80-200mm 1:4.5 lens (with macro capability to 1:4) from a consignment store - it didn't come with a manual or anything.
I believe I have figured out most of it, however I'm confused what the green and red curved lines are telling me.. I'm assuming its some sort of depth of field scale but I have no idea how to read it.. (see photos). Anyone able to tell me what I'm looking at?
Another minor point. The lens' widest aperature is 1:4.5 across the whole focal length but the aperature ring goes down to 2.8? maybe this due to mass production of aperature rings across many lenses? It does have an aperature lock switch that lets you set the max aperature the ring can go to.
Let me know if you know!
cheers,
Ben
Fairly new to photography here so bare with me. I've just bought a used Kitstar 80-200mm 1:4.5 lens (with macro capability to 1:4) from a consignment store - it didn't come with a manual or anything.
I believe I have figured out most of it, however I'm confused what the green and red curved lines are telling me.. I'm assuming its some sort of depth of field scale but I have no idea how to read it.. (see photos). Anyone able to tell me what I'm looking at?
Another minor point. The lens' widest aperature is 1:4.5 across the whole focal length but the aperature ring goes down to 2.8? maybe this due to mass production of aperature rings across many lenses? It does have an aperature lock switch that lets you set the max aperature the ring can go to.
Let me know if you know!
cheers,
Ben