At 10:19 AM 2/6/98 -0500, Rob Roy wrote:
>Last week a friend showed me his newly acquired 180mm/f2.8 Zuiko which he
>had purchased for just over $300 CDN (~$200US). From the outside the lens
>was like new. I was envious that I hadn't been in the camera store first.
>
>Last night he showed me some astrophotos he had taken before he took the
>lens back to the store. I have never seen anything like them. The stars
>were football-shaped (astigmatism) and the brighter ones had blue halos
>around them (chromatic aberration). Any ideas as to what is going on? I
>have never even heard of such a bad lens!?
>
The 180mm/2.8 new has a price tag of $999.95 at B&H.
One possibility is that the lens at such a low price compared to new must
have something wrong.
The other possibility is that photographs were overexposed? I am not an
expert on astrophotography, but I have had a few moon shots which came back
with a football shape, which indicate too-long exposures.
Tomoko Yamamoto
Photographer, Composer, Soprano
mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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