I'm thinking of getting a screw mount adapter to turn my K1000 into a Spotmatic and try out some of the Takumar lenses. I've wanted to try professional quality lenses. I can't afford them, but the Takumar optics are legendary, and I see on eBay that the lenses are cheap.
I'm interested more in telephoto than in wide angle. I like to take pictures of birds and fuzzy animals, with all that implies. So I'm looking for any advice, experience, confirmation of the legends, recommendations on specific peices of equipment. I don't really know the equipment well enough to ask specific questions, just that I want good stuff for cheap, normal lenses are easy to find but there seem to be several types, and I want good telephoto for cheap. What should I expect to pay? What about teleconverters; are there Takumar and non-Takumar teleconverters, will a TC ruin the advantge of a Takumar lens, is the 3x TC as horrible as that huge modifier leads me to believe? Can you help? -- "A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge." -- J. Black, 1803.
