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What's your biggest lens?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

luisalegria wrote:
Klaus wins !


lol hands down!! I didn't even think you could get something that big other than a telescope.


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merde,I thought we guys had got over "size does matter"..


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Klaus, what do you shoot with those.. Jupiter?


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my lens that meets all three categories is a Pentax Takumar 1000mm F8.
Sorry, I don't have a handy picture of it. the front glass is at least 125mm,
I forget the length and weight.


PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some of you guys don't realise that Klaus is only eight inches tall. Wink


PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nikon AIS 500mm f/4
Canon 200mm f/1.8 (not MF , but very heavy Smile )


PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't own a lot of tele's as they don't fit my photography but I have a vivitar series one 100-500 lying around here somewhere. All zoomed out you could use that thing as a baseball bat or a stovepipe.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

800mm f/5.6 Nikkor

BTW -- it's really too small to do a good job on Jupiter. Even my 4000mm f/20 telescope (with 2X powermate) is on the small side for planetary imaging.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A 24 inch Aerostigmat. I have yet to figure out what I'm going to do with it .



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SonicScot wrote:
Some of you guys don't realise that Klaus is only eight inches tall. Wink


Smile
Yes, never saw that tall lenses, you must be correct Wink

I have only a Canon FD 400/2.8L - ~141mm front lens diameter and ~5.5 kg, 800/5.6 SSC ~57cm length.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SonicScot wrote:
Some of you guys don't realise that Klaus is only eight inches tall. Wink


I told you, you shouldn't tell anyone!!!!
Klaus


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you add the "specific weight" category, I think my Serenar 100mm f4 first version may win Smile (459gr for a pocketable lens...) Smile



PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

enzodm wrote:
If you add the "specific weight" category, I think my Serenar 100mm f4 first version may win Smile (459gr for a pocketable lens...) Smile


Sorry, no. Try the early Tevidons, 550g for the 100/2.8.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

exaklaus wrote:
SonicScot wrote:
Some of you guys don't realise that Klaus is only eight inches tall. Wink


I told you, you shouldn't tell anyone!!!!
Klaus
Laughing Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Telyt 560mm. A beast. This is my X-e1 at the end Smile



PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Holly sh* and what you do with it ? Smile


PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Attila wrote:
MTO 500mm f6.3, Konishiroku 40cm f4.5


Szervusz Attila,
Your Konishiroku lens has 40cm written on it, not 400mm? If so, I'd be very curious to see a photo of it when you have a moment. Would that be possible?


PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My biggest lens is a Tokina-made Vivitar 800/f8 (T-mount). I got it for a song on Craigslist a few years ago in order to experiment with urban shots from a distance, like a completely "flattened" view of an intersection from 2-3 blocks away. I always found such shots interesting. Never got around to it though, especially as it feels a bit weird to be walking about town with a thing that looks like a Panzerfaust. You never know whose attention you might draw.
There is a thread here about this lens: http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic.php?t=56326&view=previous


PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just got my biggest lens yesterday :







Not the longest, but the largest of my collection, and very heavy. The lens itself (OF-233) is not so big (still 2.5kg), but the metal thing around to make it work on plane is very heavy.


PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Biggest lens I had was an 1200mm ~F7 triplet (noname "Skywatcher" from China). ~8kg, about 1m long. Looked quite funny when NEX-3 was attachet behind it Smile
Makes look Telyt 560 like a baby toy Smile

My currently largest lens in an 2000mm F10 Celestron C8 Mirror lens / Schmid Cassegrain telescope. "Only" 6kg, about 22cm diameter and 45cm(+adapters) length.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Biggest (longest FL) in my arsenal is the Novoflex 600mm and the 2X Tx to give it 1200mm (I count that as valid because it's the factory Tx) which is of limited use but can yield the odd moon shot. These things were football photographers' tools back in the day, ideal for picking up action at the far end of the field.



PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BurstMox wrote:
I just got my biggest lens yesterday :



Not the longest, but the largest of my collection, and very heavy. The lens itself (OF-233) is not so big (still 2.5kg), but the metal thing around to make it work on plane is very heavy.


Can you put something beside it so it's easier to see how big it is.. because it looks pretty small alone like that Razz