On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:13:53PM -0500, miaim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> It sounds like even more of a pain than using a telescope, which at least
> has other uses. The more that I hear of this lens, the more I wonder what
> the heck the Olympus folks were thinking when they made it. Perhaps the
> allure of it was simply the stories one could tell about
> selling/buying/using it. Still I'm curious how competitive it was against
> other mfrs. loooonnng glass at the time.
> Mike Swaim
In 1981 the U.P.I. press-agency delivered pictures of the first lauch of the
Columbia Space Shuttle, which were printed all over the world.
They had to keep a distance from about 2km, so they needed the 1000mm lens.
Frieder Faig
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