On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:06:36PM -0700, Bob Blakely wrote.. > I just purchased this lens so that I can seriously compress distance and for > beach shots of ships and surfers taken off the piers here in Southern > California. This beastie weighs about 11.6 pounds, so it'll go on the 475B > tripod and 229 head. I'll be putting it on a CG-5 equatorial mount > occasionally for a little light astrophotography. It comes withflip up rifle > type sights, but I'm thinking of putting a red dot on it for quick initial > pointing. > > I've never owned a beastie like this before and would like any comments > about it.
Talk to your chiropractor first? It remembers me of the days Pentax had a sort of road-show here in the Netherlands with all the K-bajonetted lenses then available. I just had to play with the monster mirror lens (2000mm??). Wilko -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
