Get the Vivitar 200/3. Nice & hefty.
Tom
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 12:39, Daniel J. Mitchell
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wrote re "[OM] 200/4 -vs- 200/5?" saying:
> Both of these are available locally. (for a bit more than skipwilliams's
> averages say they should be costing, but once I add in shipping + duty it
> seems more reasonable) and I'm tempted by a decent prime at that length.
>
> Do people have preferences for one over the other? Checking on e-sif,
> unsurprisingly the tradeoff is between weight/size and rather less than a
> stop (I think) of speed -- if anyone has both, which do you find you use
> more? Gary Reese's tests suggest that the f4 performs noticeably better than
> the f5, interestingly.
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