One of the nicest things about the 500 f4.5 was that it had a notch and
peg style sight on it which made it very easy to frame up subjects.
On 7/17/2013 11:55 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
Oh those are quite lovely. I find that CA can be pretty fixable. At
least purple fringing. Bad cyan fringing is hard to deal with though.
I thought it was a given that pretty much any old long telephoto is
going to exhibit fringing and that stopping down generally helps. Good
to know about the A400 5.6. I may have heard that already somewhere...
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Paul Stenquist
<pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
Nice pics. But I think your concerns about CA on digital are valid. The A
400/5.6 has problems.
Paul via phone
On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote:
On 7/17/2013 8:43 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
oooooh....just looked at the sample pictures.....maybe he has a dog or
can't focus. that doesn't look too hot. :/
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/photographic-equipment-sale/231660-sale-super-multi-coated-pentax-500mm-f-4-5-k-mount.html
$750. Includes the original box even! If I had some cash laying around
this would be mine!
I used to have a screw mount 500 f4.5 SMC Takumar that a previous owner had
modified by gluing a K-mount. It was great and inexpensive tool - the lens made
colors pop so much that you could see the difference just looking through the
finder. The lens had incredible resolution but bad chromatic aberration. I
always wondered what it would be like on a DSLR.
Just for laughs - here are a few shots I took with that lens and my trusty
Pz-1p - all on film, of course:
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b35.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b36.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b45.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b50.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b52.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b11.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/birds/pages/0204b01.htm
http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/lighthouses/pages/0204l35.htm
It was a nice lens - the manual aperture and stop down metering presented some
challenges and, as I said, I assume CA would be a major problem on a dslr. It
was quite respectable on film, though.
Mark
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