DOF at f/2 at 2m is about 1", at 7m it's 13".
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>Subject: Re: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay
> From: "Bill Stanke" <bstanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:55:26 -0700
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Skip:
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>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.
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>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
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>From: "Skip Williams" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 10:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay
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>$850 BIN?! Yea, right!
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>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.
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>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?
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>Skip
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>>Subject: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay
>> From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 04:31:59 -0400
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>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2931082637&category=3344
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