Ralf, The image quality looks great from the full-size pic, but what has blogspot done to the size embedded in your blog? That looks scary...
I remember I saw an old Pentacon lens in a pawn shop about 14 years ago. It was a 200mm, possibly f/3.5. Don't remember very many details about it, but was amazed by the aperture blades... :-) Jostein 2009/9/6 Ralf R. Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de>: > It doesn't always have to be "Limiteds". Here's a photo taken earlier > this year with a 30-odd year old Pentacon 4/300 mm lens on my K10D. Yep, > that's Pentacon, not Pentax! Meyer Görlitz for those old enough to > remember. Commie stuff! Originally made for the Pentacon Six. Mounted on > the K0D with an adapter straight from P6 to PK. > > http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/09/pentaxcon.html > > Built like the proverbial battleship and with a tripod collar that makes > everything more recent look like toys, the optical performance isn't to > be sniffed at either. The aperture has 23 blades! Bought on ebay for 67 > euros, eight years ago. > > The two lower images are crops from the full frame. You can click on > them to view them at 1:1 pixel scale. I've left the trace of CA in the > upper one just to show how little there is. > > Photo taken at the Arcelor steel mill in Dunkirk, France. K10D, Pentacon > 4/300 mm, f11, 1/20 sec. > > Enjoy. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
