Originally posted by res3567 Great!
How did you fare with your Tamron?
I chose not to use it. Too bad because it takes awesome pics. It will focus in manual, but not in AF. I checked all the connections and cleaned them just to be sure. No go.
I decided I didn't want to have to worry about manually focusing with this being my first time trying to shoot a wedding.
Originally posted by res3567 Great!BTW I missread that post. You said it would not manually focus in AF mode. Unless it has a clutch overide, it is not suppose to.
You said it worked fine months ago, so I am assuming it does. There could be a number of reasons as to why it wouldn't.
I'm no lens expert.
My Sigma 28-105 won't focus in AF mode but my Pentax 16-45 will once AF is locked. It will not, however, while it is trying to AF.
I hope I did not confuse you worse than you already were; I know how it goes on the day of with equipment issues.
When I saw you were in panic mode I began to give you an answer quickly.
Also if you plan to shoot weddings in the future, check your equipment days before. The day before is your drop dead point. Even then you could have a malfunfuction the day of. Redundancy is the key here.
I know you know that now. I should have mentioned that; I was so busy giving you pointers.
The pointers were greatly appreciated. I only found out about a week before the wedding that they wanted me to do the shoot so unfortunately that left me with no time to get it fixed. I definitely shouldn't have assumed it would work just because it did the last time it was on the camera. I've only used it about 1/2 dozen times. Expensive lens for just a few times huh?
Looks like I'll be sending it off to Tamron.
Originally posted by res3567 Glad it went okay, and Happy Mother's Day (assuming you are a mom of course) to you and all of your loved ones.
Let see those pics!
Thanks! Happy Mom's day to you too. I'll get some pics posted asap.