Skip:
You are right, of course. To me, one of the great things about old stuff
are the truly wacky designs, that no sane manufacturer would produce today.
I doubt anyone will pay the $$ the seller wants for this item.
KEH briefly had a 135 f/2 Soligor in OM mount. I pondered this one too
long, and someone else bought it ($199). I wonder what the DOF is
wide-open?
Bill Stanke
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Williams" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay
$850 BIN?! Yea, right!
These days, who REALLY needs a 135/1.5 monster (5 lbs!)? If you're that
hard up, buy an old Nikon body and get a superb 135/2. Back in the days
when those lenses were made, fast film was so grainy that every stop meant a
lot, 'specially for surveilence photo types; not so with today's emulsions.
It's also a T-mount, which means stop-down metering, quite a downer, IMO.
I'm assuming that it doesn't have automatic diaphragm, right?
Skip
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