Hey, Dont use those stinking TCs. As for Teles,
These are great, but not cheap or easy to find: 85mm F1.8 smct ( $250-$350) 135mm F2.5 SMCT 6 element version (100-150) These are excellent: 105mm F2.8 smct ($80-120) 120mm F2.8 smct ($100-150) 150mm F4 smct ($80-120) All the smct lenses over 150 are very good but not outstanding IMHO. If you like zooms all three of the screwmounts are excellent, but only the 85-210 ($100-200) is easy to find. Both the 45-125 and the 135-600 are rare and fairly expensive. JCO > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory L. Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Screw Mount! > > > 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. >
