FA: Near Mint Vivitar 500mm f/8 Mirror Lens for Nikon

Beats carrying a Nikkor.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7606659127

Thanks for looking

Norm

But Nikon makes the 500mm f8 Reflex-Nikkor, that is generally a good
lens.



How would a Vivitar lens be better?

But Nikon makes the 500mm f8 Reflex-Nikkor, that is generally a good
lens.



How would a Vivitar lens be better?
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Maybe because it's less than half the weight - and the fact that none of the
CAT lenses - even the Nikkor are "that" great.

ds

"Jerry L" wrote in message
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| But Nikon makes the 500mm f8 Reflex-Nikkor, that is generally a good
| lens.
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| How would a Vivitar lens be better?
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Quoting from my own eBay posting
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It's only 12 oz instead of 2 pounds! It's only 4-1/2" long! Yet it's a
full 500mm f/8 Macro-focusing Mirror Lens to a 1:2.7 reproduction ratio"



I own both and I'm selling the Vivitar but I won't be carrying the Nikkor
around in my camera bag all the time. It's bigger -- it's heavier -- and
the image is brighter and it's easier to focus. Both lenses have their good
points. For the average shooter, I'd say that the far cheaper Vivitar is
better than the Nikkor.



Norm

"DFS" wrote in message newsu1_f.2101$wH1.1716@trnddc03...

But Nikon makes the 500mm f8 Reflex-Nikkor, that is generally a good
lens.



How would a Vivitar lens be better?
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Maybe because it's less than half the weight - and the fact that none of the CAT lenses - even the Nikkor are "that" great.

ds

Actually, the original-version (even larger than the latest version) was quite
sharp - and sharp enough to work very well on Nikon's TC14/14B for a
sharp, compact (though s l o w . . . ;-) 700mm. Minolta also made some
good mirrors (the 250mm, anyway), as did Tamron with their 300mm f5.6,
though I agree with you that most others were not very good...
--
David Ruether


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