Nikon Nikkor 85-250 mm f/ 4.5
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Rolf Silber
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No experience with that one ...
....have used an old Vivitar 200 - 500 though with my GH1 way back.... some shots included here...
https://vimeo.com/16921665
....but that one committed suicide by rolling off a chair. Still working but a bit cross-eyed now....
Have also the Vivitar 600 - 1000 (with adapter 1200 - 2000) that produces very "interesting" shots and very nice chromatic aberrations..... ;-)
... and am currently shooting some stuff with an older 170 - 500 Sigma with Nikon f-mount.
So my take on such long glass: Nice effects at times but you lose in technical quality a lot unless you spent a mind boggling amount of money. But "technical quality" becomes a minor onjection, when the shot you need is the shot you need to tell your story.
Here we had some shots for a TV-Movie taken with AG-AF 101 and some long Nikon glass (shot through thick, tinted, sky scraper windows). Yo can say technically that's not good. I'd say it was telling a story and we had no other means to shoot it so forget about "technical".
https://vimeo.com/23108389
Problem with such old "tubes" is if their innards have survived the recent owner(s). But if you have the budget: Go for it
....have used an old Vivitar 200 - 500 though with my GH1 way back.... some shots included here...
https://vimeo.com/16921665
....but that one committed suicide by rolling off a chair. Still working but a bit cross-eyed now....
Have also the Vivitar 600 - 1000 (with adapter 1200 - 2000) that produces very "interesting" shots and very nice chromatic aberrations..... ;-)
... and am currently shooting some stuff with an older 170 - 500 Sigma with Nikon f-mount.
So my take on such long glass: Nice effects at times but you lose in technical quality a lot unless you spent a mind boggling amount of money. But "technical quality" becomes a minor onjection, when the shot you need is the shot you need to tell your story.
Here we had some shots for a TV-Movie taken with AG-AF 101 and some long Nikon glass (shot through thick, tinted, sky scraper windows). Yo can say technically that's not good. I'd say it was telling a story and we had no other means to shoot it so forget about "technical".
https://vimeo.com/23108389
Problem with such old "tubes" is if their innards have survived the recent owner(s). But if you have the budget: Go for it