A local shop as the old Cosina 100-500 zoom (forgot the f-stop.) for $200.
At 02:54 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:57:27 +0200 >From: F Mckenty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: ?? 400mm f5.6 ?? (Bird lens) >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi every one! > > >Is there any one on the list who owns (or used to own) a Pentax K 400mm >f5.6? > >If there is I would be so obliged if you could tell me some things about >it, namely, how sharp it is wide open, and whether or not it has >noticeable CA (wide open). > >I have found one relatively cheap ($325 Canadian) and, with the money in >my pocket at the moment, I'm sooo tempted. > > >I'm looking for a longer (than the 200mm I have) lens for bird >photography. What I'd really like is a 300mm f2.8 or one of those old >500mm f4.5, but I have no prospect of a budget for that type of glass in >the near future (unless one of you fine people has an old one that you'd >like to sell at a good price to a good cause :-) ). Would any of you be >able to recommend (or recommend against) some thing in that price/focal >range? > > >Thanks for your thoughts, >Francis Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://www.brendemuehl.net http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com http://evangelicalinteraction.blogspot.com http://philosophyforchristians.blogspot.com "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
