In the 50 years that I have owned SLRs I have never owned glass longer
than 300mm. For the last year and a half, ever since I bought my K-70, I
have had my eye on some long glass at my local camera shop. They have
had it in stock for at least a couple of years, and when I got paid for
a job today I ran out and bought it. It is the Rokinon 650-1300mm
f/8-16, and they had marked it down so far that the price was about $10
less than the best new price that I have seen online. It doesn't matter
to me that it is three-on-the-tree without power brakes or power
steering because that is what I first drove 50 years ago and I can still
drive that - there are times when I run the K-70 in fully or mostly
manual mode. If I get a chance tomorrow I will see what the traffic in
my hummingbird feeder looks like through it. I suspect that I may want
to build an extension bar to support the K-70 so I won't strain the tube
at 1300mm, but 650mm may be enough for the feeder.
--
Dale H. Cook, decades as 35mm SLR photographer, now
Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm walking-around lens
https://plymouthcolony.net/photos/index.html
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