ebay of course, the takumar 400mm F5.6 is an excellent lens for the money. JC O'Connell [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Source of M42 telephoto lenses? On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:27 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: >> >> A friend in Canada just told me that her father is looking for a >> telephoto lens longer than 200mm, for night sky photography, for his >> Spotmatic-F that he's been using since the 1970s. And he hasn't been >> able to find any. I suggested that for screwmount lenses he'll >> probably have to resort to pawn shops and eBay, but perhaps there are >> other likely sources I should mention? > > Tamron Adaptall. He could obtain a 300mm/2.8, 500mm/8, etc. Only need > one adaptor to service tham all. > That too, and Downtown Camera in Toronto has both those lenses for sale (The 500 has some fungus though) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
