---- John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:11:39PM -0400, Christian wrote: > > > > "Big" telephoto? If I still had a Pentax DSLR I'd have a 600/4 FA*.... > > With a 300/2.8 FA* for hand-held flight shots. > > > > But that's me... > > I've hand-held a 300/2.8 with the 1.7x AF adapter on it. > That's a sweet combination (a 500mm/4.5). > > But you won't find that going on eBay for $700 ... > > The Tamron 300/2.8 is a darn good lens, too; I only > switched to a Pentax A* because I got an offer that > I couldn't refuse. And that one used to be available > at around $1000 (although that was some years ago).
I paid just over half that for the green version about six years ago. Bargains do exist. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

