The 'compression' of the planes, or 'telephoto' effect, would be just the same in an image taken with a 28 mm wide angle lens as one made using a 500 mm or any other telephoto. I may have said this before ... a couple of years ago.
Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: Re: pentax smc 500mm f4.5 or tamron 400mm f4?? suggestions > Hi > > I have just acquired - and have been using - a late version SMC 500 4.5, I also have an SMC-A 400 5.6. The telephoto effect and the compression of planes is much more noticeable with the 500mm lens. The manual diaphragm is a slight drag but not too bad with an auto camera. I focus at f4.5 and then close the diaphragm down to shoot and let auto take care of the shutter speed. I imagine it will be a pain on a manual only body. The 500 is a beast, my Manfrotto 055 with heavy duty ball head is not really man enough for the job, interestingly a bean bag kinda works better. It is heavy and cumbersome and you have to want to use it. > > It's listed at �2,400 on the Pentax UK site. I saw mine advertised on Loot.com for �195 - as you can imagine I grabbed it - when I went to collect, I was told I had been the only interested party!!!! I would say it's worth paying anything up to �800 for a good late one. It really depends on how much you want it and whether you're prepared to lug the thing about. > > AB > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Join Freeserve http://www.freeserve.com/time/ > > Winner of the 2003 Internet Service Providers' Association awards for Best Unmetered ISP and Best Consumer Application. > >
