Paul
On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Mark Cassino wrote:
LOL - they obviously have the same barber :-) Nice shot.
I'm rather surprised at the result you are getting with this lens. I had the same lens a few years ago and sold it off when I got the Sigma 70-200 f2.8. You seem to be getting better results with yours than I got with mine. BTW - mine did not fit my Pz-1p or Pz-20 (the cameras I had at the time) - the flange on the lens hit the power zoom couplings. I used the lens on manual focus cameras with no problem, though.. It sounds like the *ist-D, without power zoom, does not have that problem.
As a side note - I sold this lens and bunch of others off in the fall of 2001, just as the Anthrax scare hit. The buyer of the lens was in Arinlington, VA, and I shipped it USPS. It took 10 months but the lens finally arrived - however, whatever radiation treatment it got to kill possible anthrax spores left the elements of the lens pitch black - like the darkest sunglasses you've ever seen. You could probably shoot sunspots with it. So be caeful using it around nuclear power plants etc. :-0
Looking forward to seeing more shots with this setup -
MCC
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: PESO: It's Great to Have a Dad
I spent an hour walking around downtown Birmingham, Michigan this afternoon with the *istD and the thirty-year-old Vivitar Series 1 70/210/3.5. This snap was shot at f3.5, 1/1500, ISO 400, 210mm. I'm growing quite fond of this ancient manual focus zoom.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3322436
Pau
