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Lens: Tamron 500mm mirror Camera: K5ii Photo Location: Seattle, WA, USA 
Posted By: troika, 05-08-2019, 01:41 PM

A friend gave me a box of film era K-Mount stuff last year including this mirror lens. I kind of snorted in derision, when I pulled it out of the box, but hand-held from about 280 ft, I can't really complain all that much about this capture of my son's Little League game last night. I'm going to try again tomorrow and see what I get.

Think I got a better photo than the mom with the smart phone to the left of the image?



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Where is the photo bro?
05-08-2019, 04:05 PM   #3
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I have been experimenting with a Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 500mm f/8 Mirror (55BB)

you may want to look at these threads regarding mirror lenses:

Mirror, Mirror ( in the lens ) eek ? ! ? - Page 4 - PentaxForums.com

Figuring out what to do with my mirror lens. - Page 2 - PentaxForums.com

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/122-lens-clubs/71775-mirror-lens-club.html

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/122-lens-clubs/59769-adaptall-mount-club-tamron.html
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Where is the photo bro?
It was there now it's not. Interesting. This is the first time I tried to share from Google instead of Flickr.

I'll fix it.

EDIT: I could see it on the PC/Browser that I posted from, but not any other one. I tried a few things to resolve it, but ended up using Flickr. I guess Google is not going to be the alternative. Need to figure that out.


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A wonderful capture with the ball in mid flight about to get tattooed. Well done sir and thanks for posting. P.S. Google is closing their photo operations.

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A wonderful capture with the ball in mid flight about to get tattooed. Well done sir and thanks for posting. P.S. Google is closing their photo operations.

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Thanks. He and I have been working on swing mechanics and the wrist are just about to snap around and send that ball over the 2nd baseman's head. I'm going to take more tomorrow night from there and see what I get.


Good to know about Google. I need to figure out where to go from Flickr, I guess.
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Thanks. He and I have been working on swing mechanics and the wrist are just about to snap around and send that ball over the 2nd baseman's head. I'm going to take more tomorrow night from there and see what I get.

Good to know about Google. I need to figure out where to go from Flickr, I guess.
pBase is old-school but it works. Very useful for image file storage and linking to sites like PF. And it isn’t hosting a billion new images a year. I’ve never figured out how to live-link to the High Res image like flickr, but that’s never bothered me.

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Excellent photo. That Mirror lens does a good job.
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