I have contemporary scans of various lenses, incl. the OM 500/8 and other
mirror lenses, scanned from Modern Photo, Pop Photo, and other sources
here:
http://www.edsawyer.com/lenstests/
The OM was ok, but not outstanding. None of the reflex lenses were really
anything special except the 750mm Questar, which was the best of the
reflex lenses.
The Vivitar Series 1 solid-cat lenses are worth looking at too, those are
probably 2nd best to the Questar, and came in a few sizes/lengths. The
450mm one is probably the one to look at closest, it¹s very light and
pretty well regarded.
The 250mm Rokkor mirror lens is *stupidly* overpriced, avoid it unless you
can find it for $250 or so. I don¹t know what the fetish about that one
is. Certainly not image quality, from what I have seen. The rokkor 58/1.2
is worth what it costs, it¹s a fantastic lens, image-quality wise.
250/5.6 reflex - Not so much.
-Ed
On 4/22/15, 6:16 AM, "olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Re: [OM] opinions of the OM 500mm F8.0 reflex lens?
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