Wow! Great fun and find! Look forward to the photos and report. cheers, Christine
On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw a Sigma 600mm f6 mirror lens on eBay for $90 that looked to be in great > shape so I clicked the BIN button. It arrived yesterday—immaculate condition, > in the case with the four accessory filters. It's Nikon mount and I have the > adapters to fit it to both A7 and E-M1. So I stuck it on the E-M1 for a few > hand held test shots last evening. It's amazing how efficient that camera's > IBIS is... A couple of nice, shake free test shots with an effective 1200mm > FoV at 1/300-1/400 second. Of course it will work best on a tripod. > > The lens is light, focuses smoothly, and handles easily. It's a little > lacking in contrast like most Mirror lenses, but that's easily accommodated > in Lightroom. Seems reasonably sharp too, but I'll leave judgement on that to > when I use a proper tripod. > > Should be fun! For $90, cheap fun! :-) > > Godfrey > -- > Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] > -- > 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.
