There were legendary A* 200 macros, I know some list members have a copy. One on eBay right now with a BIN of $3300 IIRC. That is a fair price. There were a handful of FA* 200 macros; I had one and sold it to another list member.
And there have been some off-brand 180mm macros with a good reputation. But the market for macro lenses in general and for long macros in particular just doesn’t seem to support a high volume (and lower cost) product. stan > On 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.
