On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > .... so I was thinking maybe a used big old > fixed-focal-length telephoto like my Dad used to use 30 years ago. I > went poking around on EBay and sure enough, there are big old lenses > for sale there regularly.
Holy cow, this used-glass thing is a fascinating sub-sub-sub-culture. I was particularly charmed by a K-mount Tokina SL400 400mm f5.6 going suspiciously cheap on EBay, from the UK. The URL was three lines long so I'm not gonna cut&paste it in here. The Super-Takumar 300 (no SMC) is *definitely* the most common thing out there, as many of them as everything else put together. One of those would probably meet my needs. I had to resist the temptation to pull the trigger several times; that *can't* be a good thing to do on the day you first discover new territory... -T -- 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.
