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- From: smustopo@nyx.cs.du.edu (sofjan mustopoh)
- Subject: Re: 80-200/f2.8 for $$$, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.060736.3154@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov18.091725.21182@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1992Nov19.035957.
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 06:07:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.151547.22968@hemlock.cray.com> dtj@caffeine.cray.co
- (Dean Johnson) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov19.035957.3597@walter.bellcore.com>, jchen@wind.bellc
- re.com (Jason Chen) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> But then, I am no pro. There must be reasons for the popularity of the
- >> 80-200/f2.8 lens. What are they?
- >>
- >
- >I shoot polo (damn horses keep drowning! ;-)) a bunch and the stop would
-
- >definitely be worth the money. Besides, with a f2.8 lens you can probabl
-
- >put a 2x teleconverter on it and still have the auto-everything still wo
- k,
- >a definite plus.
- >
- > -Dean
-
-
- I'm very sure that Minolta 80-200 apo 2.8 won't be compatible
- with the 1.4 and 2x APO converter. I got that from Minolta
- rep. I don't know how incompatible it is. but i guess i won't
- spend $850 for the zoom and $350 for the converter to find out.
- :)
- May be the image quality will suffer and minolta just won't risk
- recomending the converter with the zoom. But the converter works
- fine with Minolta APO prime lens.
-
- Muskie
- Sofjan Mustopoh
-
-