What is missing in this picture?

[thelps]

I was looking at this lens and noticed something is missing.
Perhaps the problem is there because this is a pre-production lens.

Can you see what's missing?

 

[AlbertTRAL]

Well, more than missing, I would say that there is something unnecessary, superfluous or left over from another body that are the DOF marks, with obviously no sense in a fly by wire focusing lens.

 

[wok64]

No way to screw in a filter or lens hood?

Wolfgang

 

[Marcus E.]

There's no mark for the aperture to go to :shock: , What the!!......

 

[Orol]

Two rings - focus and aperture? One having a red dot mark - to what scale? Other having no mark to be related to the DOF scale? Are the rings swapped?

Peter

 

[thelps]

There's no mark for the aperture to go to :shock: , What the!!......

Well, more than missing, I would say that there is something unnecessary, superfluous or left over from another body that are the DOF marks, with obviously no sense in a fly by wire focusing lens.

Yes, essentially this is what I was looking for. In my OM days I often used to set hyperfocal distance and then not worry about accurate focus. Particularly with wide angles.
But what is the point of aperture marks with no distance marks? Am I missing something? Maybe the marks for distance will appear on the finished product.

 

[AlbertTRAL]

If it works as the 12 2.0, you can move the focus ring towards the body and then you go into "snapshot focus" mode and appears the distance scale engraved in the lens body.
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/ ... _2_review/

 

[thelps]

If it works as the 12 2.0, you can move the focus ring towards the body and then you go into "snapshot focus" mode and appears the distance scale engraved in the lens body.
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/ ... _2_review/

ahh, good one Albert, that is where the markings are. I never knew this about the 12mm. Riddle solved!
Cheers