Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: X-Re on May 25, 2007, 05:51:51 pm
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I recently purchased my first AFD based lens - the 15mm fisheye. All of my other lenses are USM of one flavor or another. The copy of the fish that I have is rather noisy to my ear, when I focus it, etc. I'm just curious if this is the normal thing - I don't have another AFD lens to compare to, so...
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I recently purchased my first AFD based lens - the 15mm fisheye. All of my other lenses are USM of one flavor or another. The copy of the fish that I have is rather noisy to my ear, when I focus it, etc. I'm just curious if this is the normal thing - I don't have another AFD lens to compare to, so...
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Compared with the other canon lenses that I have the 15mm is perhaps a little more grindy than the others. doesn't seem to affect its performance much though.
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My copy is also noisy, at least compared to USM lenses. I wouldn't worry too much.
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Cool, thanks guys It seems to work properly, of course, so no worries there...