I used the 1000 for the first shuttle launch, with a 2X. I'll have to dig
the slides out.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: <frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Rarest Zuiko-- 1000/f11
| On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:13:53PM -0500, miaim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| >
| > It sounds like even more of a pain than using a telescope, which at
least
| > has other uses. The more that I hear of this lens, the more I wonder
what
| > the heck the Olympus folks were thinking when they made it. Perhaps the
| > allure of it was simply the stories one could tell about
| > selling/buying/using it. Still I'm curious how competitive it was
against
| > other mfrs. loooonnng glass at the time.
| > Mike Swaim
|
|
| In 1981 the U.P.I. press-agency delivered pictures of the first lauch of
the
| Columbia Space Shuttle, which were printed all over the world.
| They had to keep a distance from about 2km, so they needed the 1000mm
lens.
|
| Frieder Faig
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