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 Post subject: Lens LEDs
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 9:08 am 
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Lenses have an LED on the front, but do not seem to illuminate.

What are they for?

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My bet would be that they are IR-LED, which we humans cannot see.

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Examples?

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What? Which lens? Never seen that.
An example s.v.p.

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Do you mean macro-flashes?

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The EF 50mm F/1.8 from Canon. picture here

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I'd think that's not a LED at all :).

I think it's just a symbol to show where you should line up the lens and the lens mount on your camera ;).

Sony's (ok, Konica-Minolta's) A(F) mount uses orange 'LEDs' to show how a lens has to be mounted on the camera...I assume Canon uses red ones or so ?

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My Minolta lenses have red dots though;)

Joris is 100% right though, you only have EF-S lenses?

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EF = Red dot
EF-S = White Square

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Yes, that is correct. It looks more like a light than a dot though.

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@Canon 500D

"Yes, that is correct. It looks more like a light than a dot though"

We may have to send you to Camera prison for this thread.
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Good grief! I'm pleased this was in the Off-Topic section and not Canon. I'm almost tempted to believe it's April the 1st. Unbelievable. Image

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Why do they disguise it as a light then?

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I feel a bit dumb now xD

Red LED's are translucent. That is no disguise ;)

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You should buy/look more closely on an EF-lens;) It really doesnt look like a LED!

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