On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Th. Stach wrote: > > Hello all you big glass experts, > > what do you think would be a fair price for such a lens?
I bought mine for $2000 USD in around 1990 and sold it for under a thousand to a dealer in around 2000. The MFs are pretty rare so they are likely to cost more than they are "worth" compared to other brands of 300/2.8. You can get Nikon 300/2.8 MFs for under a thousand right now because the market it flooded with them. Can you hand-hold it? If you are really good. The 300/2.8 A* is an order of magnitude heavier than anything except the 500/600, and quite noticeably heavier than the Nikon 300/2.8 MF. I don't remember ever hand-holding the Pentax but I can successfully hand-hold the Nikon (forgot my monopod one day) so it should be possible. It's not a sharpness issue if you have enough light to shoot fast shutter speeds (1/focal length, right), but rather that it is VERY fatiguing! The Pentax AF might be lighter than the MF I owned. DJE
