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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 493995" data-attributes="member: 16749">If this is the same 18-55mm lens that came with my D3200, then it doesn't even have an infinity focus mark.&nbsp; And worse, if you set it to manual focus and turn it all the way in that direction, it actually goes past infinity; unlike all my very old lenses, where the hard stop is at infinity.&nbsp; Out of the box, there really is no good, easy way to set this lens manually to infinity.&nbsp; I just recently added an infinity mark to mine, which was a bit tricky, due to the fact that the focus barrel is only adjacent to the zoom barrel, rather than to any fixed reference.&nbsp; I put two marks on the zoom barrel, for each end of its range, and an infinity mark on the focus barrel, which lines up with one of the other marks only if the lens is at one extreme or the other of its zoom range.&nbsp; This picture shows my infinity mark lined up with the mark that is valid with the lens zoomed out to the 18mm end of its range.&nbsp; To the right, along the zoom barrel, you can see the other mark, that is valid with the lens at the 55mm end of its range.[ATTACH]179893[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 493995, member: 16749"] If this is the same 18-55mm lens that came with my D3200, then it doesn't even have an infinity focus mark. And worse, if you set it to manual focus and turn it all the way in that direction, it actually goes past infinity; unlike all my very old lenses, where the hard stop is at infinity. Out of the box, there really is no good, easy way to set this lens manually to infinity. I just recently added an infinity mark to mine, which was a bit tricky, due to the fact that the focus barrel is only adjacent to the zoom barrel, rather than to any fixed reference. I put two marks on the zoom barrel, for each end of its range, and an infinity mark on the focus barrel, which lines up with one of the other marks only if the lens is at one extreme or the other of its zoom range. This picture shows my infinity mark lined up with the mark that is valid with the lens zoomed out to the 18mm end of its range. To the right, along the zoom barrel, you can see the other mark, that is valid with the lens at the 55mm end of its range. [ATTACH=CONFIG]179893._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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