Thanks Bruce.
Maybe thats what they meant.<g>
BTW I just got back my test jumping pans(Fuji 400F) and there not
bad.Low light,1/30 wide open.Caught 1 rider full off
the ground and jump/ground with motion blur. Cannot wait to get a longer lens for the
6x7
Brother Dave (tube watching)Brooks
> Dave,
>
> I have the tubes and the 90LS. I could swear that I have shot that
> way before. I just put #1 tubes on with the 90 and dry-fired it
> with the regular shutter and the leaf. What happens is that if the
> leaf is cocked, it will close the shutter when you press the shutter
> release but it will not fire the shutter. The net result is that you
> will get a blank picture. However, if you don't use the leaf shutter
> (uncocked), it works just fine with the tubes - no different than any
> of my other lenses.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Brother Bruce
>
>
>
> Monday, June 16, 2003, 11:31:18 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> bcin> Hi Gang.
> bcin> Well i'v never seen Jr. have such a bad show day since 1996,but i'm a parent
> and
have
> bcin> to put up with bad show days instead of utilizing great IR weather,D'oh.
>
> bcin> Just wondering if anyone in the 'hood,uses the extension tubes with the 90mm
> bcin> f2.8 LS lens.I was just looking at the pdf download from Pentax,and it gave
> info
for
> bcin> the 55,77 and 105(plus the others)but no 90.It later stated the leaf shutter
> gets
in
the
> bcin> way. I was
> bcin> hoping to use this lens to start some 6x7 macro,but it looks like i'll need to
look
for
> bcin> the 105,135 or a 200
> bcin> or so.
>
> bcin> Any comments.
> bcin> Dave(getting a fuji 400 f back today)Brooks
> bcin> BTW sun all this week so hopefully i can bang off my 1st roll of IR this
season.Man
what
> bcin> a bummer of a spring.
>
>
