Voigtlander had a couple, no longer made, a 180 and a 125 2.3 that got very good reviews http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/36676784
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that the longest macro currently produced for K-mount might be > about 100mm. I've heard mention of a 200mm, and I have an old manual focus > 135 1:2 macro. > > Two part question: > > What are the options for long focal length macros? How are they optically? > Are there any teleconverters that do well? Or, am I just better off > cropping tighter? > > In a similar vein, are there technical reasons for the dearth of long macro > lenses? Or is it just that the market for them is too small for them to be > commercially viable? > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.

