On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:38:57AM -0400, Dave Herzstein wrote:
> The quest for an inexpensive "600mm" lens is enticing....
> I suggest that you purchase a 1.4X converter (a non-Canon brand, as
> the Canon 1.4X won't fit either). You will lose only 1 stop (f/8.0
> max aperture) and the quality loss will be much less.
Alternatively, if you can live with manual focus and use a tripod,
consider a mirror lens. Sigma 600/8 is optically better than the
75-300 with 2x tc, manual focusing is slow but accurate, and it only
costs some US$350 new. Out-of-focus highlights appear as rings
which may or may nor bother you, depending...
--
Tapani Tarvainen
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