Hello Mike
For a moment I thought that the trend on thought coming through your story
was that we could all be scrambling to play a "doris Fang" role i.e. be
happy beneficiaries of someone's generosity.
Regards
Titoy
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Virsinger <mikev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Mailing List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: [OM] Tamron SP500 Question
> I recently was going through my astronomy gear and found a forgotten
Tamron
> SP500 f/8 mirror lens that I had bought back in 1991 to shoot the total
> solar eclipse in Baja, Mexico. I was not in the least bit into photography
> and bought this lens because it was the biggest lens I could get my hands
on
> at the time and my girlfriend used Nikons so that was the mount I got.
>
> Well imagine my surprise when I fount it today! It has an Adaptall II
mount
> for Nikon. I'm assuming I can get a mount for Olympus. My question is:
does
> anyone know the quality of this lens? It says its multicoated, and it does
> indeed look it. Has anyone shot with this one, or is Tamron just another
OEM
> name for the same 500mm mirror lens floating around? I'm just wondering if
I
> found treasure or trash in the bottom of my closet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike V
>
>
> Michael Virsinger
> VirTech Solutions, Inc
> 1-800-VIR-TECH
>
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