Excellent. Hope there was  a fence between you and that critter.
With film, you're still a little short for moon shots with the 400 and a 2X 
converter. You'd have a pretty heavy crop. A 600 and a 2X would get  you in the 
ballpark. 
Paul
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Dave. I had the K at one time as well. It was quite good but 
> > wouldn't focus close enough to shoot birds. When the D came out, I 
> > figured I should sell it and buy an A. That gave me both much closer 
> > focus and full auto metering. I think I sold the K for $300 and bought 
> > the A for $400. Not a bad exchange. Paul -------------- Original message 
> > ----------------------
> 
>       A good lens for the money, to be sure.  I've got a Takumar version 
> of it that pulled this off last summer:
> 
> http://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~papenfuss/imgp7713.jpg
> 
>       I'd like to get a decent doubler to do another moonshot.
> 
> -Cory
> 
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> * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA                                       *
> * Electrical Engineering                                                *
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