i'm hoping to hear from someone that uses an 80-XL on a MT2000. I've recently started to use this combination quite a bit and unless i'm doing something wrong, find it incredibly frustrating. you see, when i try to use my 80-XL on a flat board and focus at infinity, the lens needs to rest right at the break in the innermost track and the first main track. since i need to drop the bed to keep it out of the frame, i must do one of the following... 1. fully extend the internal focusing track and then slide the front standard until it's nearly fallen off the edge (fine focusing is nearly impossible this way) or 2. slide the front standard onto the drop bed and then tilt the lens back and employ some degree of rise to get everything squared up. i'm not particularly keen on either of these work-arounds, and i hate recessed lens boards, so i find myself wondering what others using this camera/lens combination do? i don't remember having this problem with the 75mm lens that the 80 replaced, so i might just switch back.
any suggestions? anyone else experience this?
thanks,
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