On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Fred wrote: > Perhaps, based upon your mention of being "an excellent lens for > flower photo", it is indeed a new lens, because the 400-600/8-12 had > (like most long telephotos) a rather long "close"-focus distance > (about 10 feet), which is a little far for the usual "flower photo". > (And, because of the "doughnut bokeh" of typical mirror lenses, I > would think that it might be difficult to use a mirror lens for such > images.)
Some mirror lenses can focus closer than that. I've got a 500/f8 Vivitar with a macro mode. It can get down to 1:2.7 at under 6 feet. dave -- dave o'brien - http://www.diaspoir.net Hate the sin and love the sinner. -- Mahatma Gandhi - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
