Excellent. Hope there was a fence between you and that critter. With film, you're still a little short for moon shots with the 400 and a 2X converter. You'd have a pretty heavy crop. A 600 and a 2X would get you in the ballpark. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks Dave. I had the K at one time as well. It was quite good but > > wouldn't focus close enough to shoot birds. When the D came out, I > > figured I should sell it and buy an A. That gave me both much closer > > focus and full auto metering. I think I sold the K for $300 and bought > > the A for $400. Not a bad exchange. Paul -------------- Original message > > ---------------------- > > A good lens for the money, to be sure. I've got a Takumar version > of it that pulled this off last summer: > > http://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~papenfuss/imgp7713.jpg > > I'd like to get a decent doubler to do another moonshot. > > -Cory > > -- > > ************************************************************************* > * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * > * Electrical Engineering * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > ************************************************************************* > > > -- > 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.
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