Believe that there was an older Vivitar 75-150mm with a matched
teleconverter - don't know the speed but many of the older Viv's were
worth the erfort.
AndrewF
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On 16/04/2005, at 3:28 AM, ScottGee1 wrote:
>
> Hi all;
>
> Well, thought I had the lens I wanted/needed in the Tamron 70~150
> f/3.5, but it has an odd flaw. When zoomed out to 70mm, filter cannot
> be accessed and thus polarizer cannot be controlled. Sadly, it's
> going to back from whence it came even though it's a fine lens
> otherwise.
>
> Any suggestions for another lens of similar description w/o that
> 'feature'? Of course the Oly f/4.0 is on the list, but are there
> others that use 49mm filters, are compact and relatively fast? I'm
> avoiding those that go to ~200 because they tend to get much slower.
> Tokina, Tamron, Sigma, Soligar, Sears, Mattel . . .
>
> I suppose it would be too much to ask for it to have a front element
> that doesn't rotate!
>
> Of course, if you have one that fits the criteria and want to sell it,
> I'd be happy to hear from you.
>
> TIA!/ScottGee1
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