Mephiloco
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My 50/1.2 has never focussed to infinity since i bought it off the classifieds here. It sticks between 50ft and inf (though hyperfocal should be pretty great after 50ft even at 1.2). Anyways, I took it apart, removed the stops and played around and see that it focuses down to 3 ft coupled, and down to 1.8 feet uncoupled (on my gxr). The only downside is that the front element spins as by removing the stop you remove the aspect of the design that stops the front element from locking. With the front element spinning changing apertures becomes a 2 handed task.
That being said, I really like the 2 ft focus and think I'm going to work on securing the front element so that I can change stop with no problems. It's really been bothering me lately that all my lenses close focus at 1m or greater, especially considering all the lenses I use at work drastically outperform that. 290mm at 2.8 can focus to 4', yet my 50mm can only focus to 3.5ft ? That's still 2.5' further than our primes at work.
Wondering if anyone has toyed around with close focus modding this lens or any others (even if it loses RF coupling).
That being said, I really like the 2 ft focus and think I'm going to work on securing the front element so that I can change stop with no problems. It's really been bothering me lately that all my lenses close focus at 1m or greater, especially considering all the lenses I use at work drastically outperform that. 290mm at 2.8 can focus to 4', yet my 50mm can only focus to 3.5ft ? That's still 2.5' further than our primes at work.
Wondering if anyone has toyed around with close focus modding this lens or any others (even if it loses RF coupling).