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What's your biggest lens?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:27 pm    Post subject: What's your biggest lens? Reply with quote

So who got the biggest tool?

1. Heaviest
2. Longest
3. Largest

Smile


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:56 pm    Post subject: Re: What's your biggest lens? Reply with quote

vanylapep wrote:
So who got the biggest tool?

Smile


Well, I'm sure it's not the largest lens of anyone here!! There are a great many "big time" lens people contributing to this forum.

But my personal largest lens is an Aero-Ektar f6.0 610mm telephoto with m42 mount. It's not close. I have no other lenses even half as large as the Aero-Ektar. The lens is over two feet long and is seven inches in diameter at its widest point. In addition to being on the large side, the Aero-Ektar has a sizable, and heavy, thoriated final element that is quite radioactive. While I enjoy owning the Aero-Ektar, I do so most often from a distance. Wink


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Although I sold it sometime last year, the biggest I ever had was the Prakticar 5.6/500 for Pentacon Six:


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vanylapep wrote:


Wow!
Very good looking...
Can you share some details of this project?


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tamron 200-500 f5.6 is biggest and heaviest I own.


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I will not score high in this matter!! Very Happy
My heaviest and bigger lens is Tair-3 (4.5/300mm).


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, where's my crown??
Astro Fernbildlinse 1:6,3/1000
and when it comes to diameter and weight (14kg):
Zeiss 5,6/1000


Wink

Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

exaklaus wrote:
OK, where's my crown??
Astro Fernbildlinse 1:6,3/1000
and when it comes to diameter and weight (14kg):
Zeiss 5,6/1000


Wink

Klaus


I was expecting your post... Very Happy
Where is the photo of your "throne" of lenses? Razz


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asahi Super-Multi-Coated 1:4.5/500mm, 126mm D x 440mm L, 3.5kg







PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found my thrown-photo on an old hard-disk Cool

Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Klaus, I'm bit ashamed only to show my 63mm/860mm Telementor selfmade lens:



It's a kind of diet-small undernourised tubelett.

But it's my longest....

Nikkor 2,8/300mm my biggest in diameter, no competitive to Your's Embarassed Embarassed


PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Klaus wins !


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 .