> I'd say that even the much-maligned Pentax F100-300/4.5-5.6 that I > bought for less than $85 used would be a better performer. Stop it > down two-three stops and it returns a surprisingly nice image, even > with a 2x teleconverter, eg:
> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/large/21O4-half.jpg > I only rarely obtained an image with any of the mirror lenses that > could compete with that... Interesting reflection starbursts off the foreground water - I guess that's the effect of a nine-bladed diaphragm? Fred
