Originally posted by baro-nite Some of us make do.
Not that I don't dream of an A400/2.8...
the first long lens I ever owned was a slow 400. --- oneof those f6.3's that sold out of a small ad in back of pop-photograph--
preset with a T mount that I bught 45 years ago for probably $50. or so. I rarely used it because it simply wasn't fast enough
to be very usable.---profoundly when 'hi-speed' Ektachrome was ISO 160. Years later I got a Sigma 400-f/5.6 new enought to have AF.
but again, I never used it. I got it about the same time as I got my first Pentax exotic---- an A300/f2.8---and I've alrady told you which one
I didn't use.
I was very reluctant to buy the A400/2.8 after my dismal experiences with the first 2 400's I'd owned but the
A400/2.8 is a different animal.---not one that you want to take on long hiking trips, but it does the job, and with a converter reaches out there.
Moreover, unlike ethe 600's, it meets the size specs as carry on airline luggage.