kwoodard wrote: gbohannon wrote:
Quick eye candy post of my recent purchase. After John H passed on the 1000m F/11 he posted about the other week, I picked it up from KEH. (I checked with John first to make sure he wasn't going to buy it)
In true KEH ratings this "Bargain" lens does not have a scratch on it. The mirror looks great and only very little internal dust. The leather lens cap looks brand new.
This it the older NKJ version with the filters on a turret vs mounting to the rear of the lens. This is the version I was waiting to get. Going to try replacing a couple of the filters with a light pollution and nebula filter and see how it performs against my Meade ETX scope. The build quality of this lens is incredible.
I did some quick test shots to ensure focus accuracy. Because of the f/11 it is very hard to focus on the Df (dark viewfinder), even with the split prism screen I have in it. Will have to practice a lot. BUT it works great on the Fuji X-Pro2 and focus-peaking. Keeper rate very very high.
Just for fun, I compared the image quality of this lens against the 200-500/5.6 VR lens with the TC-20EIII to give me 1000mm f/11 equivalency. I have to say it was very close. The 200-500/5.6 had a very hard time locking focus with AF using the TC, so I can't say it was much of an advantage over manual focus of the old Non-Ai Reflex. But the 200-500 shots were handheld @ 1000mm and 1/250 sec
Now if we can only get Nikon to release a camera with focus-peaking and IBIS and we would be cooking.
Image below shot with the X-Pro2 and Nikon 24/2.8 AIS with Tilt/Shift adapter.
George
And on the crop sensor, thats 1500mm! I almost pulled the trigger on this lens, but with my eyes going, decided against it.
I bet this would sing on the XH-1 with the IBIS. I really am counting on Nikon to counter Fuji and especially Sony offerings soon. I am slowly thinning out my Nikon collection and going to keep my "best of" for each focal length I have.
