Like Steve, I enjoyed some old-fashioned lens enablement today, discovering a "store" in the area that is only open for 4 hours and only on Saturdays. I paid him a visit and came away with 6 lenses and film body for $115. Interesting guy as the proprietor. He used to build film panorama cameras for architectural work.
In the window if his shop he has a one-of-a-kind lens produced for NASA that was HUGE. It was a 1000mm f/4, if memory serves. He's the 3rd owner of it. A friend (who is currently a Pentax Dealer in Wyoming) was apparently the 2nd owner. He's got all kinds of stuff in this shop, but I was mainly looking at his K-mount and m42 stuff. The prize of the day was the highly respected Vivitar (Komine made) 55mm f2.8 Auto Macro (62mm filter size) that goes to 1:1. This lens is apparently sold under many makers, but is prized by many. Mine is perfect except for missing the rubber focusing sleeve and cost me $40. It is an m42 lens and a KEEPER. I got a couple of Tamron 28mm (because they were so cheap). One is the Adaptall f/2.5 that came with an ES adaptall on it. The other is a pre-adaptall Tamron-F f/2.8 which is just in pristine Like New condition. The other oddity of the day is a pretty little chrome and black Edixa-Travenar 50mm f2.8. It looks positively RAD on my K-01, but I have no idea if optically it is worth much. The preset mechanism on it is different than any other lens I have ever seen. I plan on going back and buying more of his stuff. He has some really unusual stuff and uses it mostly on Fuji and Olympus mirrorless cameras. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
