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Re: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay

Subject: Re: [OM] 135/1.5 on ebay
From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:56:43 -0400
T-mount is non-auto, so step-down or preset.

N*kon? Heresy!

tOM

On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 12:51
Skip Williams <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> $850 BIN?!  Yea, right!  
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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