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Subject: Re: [OM] An OM Zuiko 600/6.5 picture
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 06:38:58 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>> Nice image.  I wonder if this was the later MC version that may have 
>>used different glass as well?  Not super sharp wide open
>> on the Gary Reese tests, but stopped down was supposed to be very 
>>sharp if stabilized enough and aperture pre-fire somehow done.
>
>I'm not remembering about the lens coatings, but do recall that it had
>more chrome than a 1958 Cadillac.
>
>If you could get the lens locked down, it was actually extremely
>sharp, but it vibrated in the wind.
>

     Adding a weight to the bottom of the tripod column, such as a sack of 
rocks or sand, helps to reduce the vibration.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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