[ivanvernon]

Two flower shots with the K-1 and Mamiya 500mm f 8.0 Reflex/mirror lens. On these shots, I kicked up the ISO to 3200 to yield shutter speeds of 1/160 and 1/200 seconds. That and the SR feature of the K-1 make this kit pretty much hand holdable even at 500mm.

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[luftfluss]

Not about a Pentax lens, but Barney Britton over at DPR has given some love to the Nikon 1000/11 Mirror...

Gear of the Year: Barney's choice (part 2) - Reflex-Nikkor 1000mm F11: Digital Photography Review

[Thagomizer]

Not about a Pentax lens, but Barney Britton over at DPR has given some love to the Nikon 1000/11 Mirror...

Gear of the Year: Barney's choice (part 2) - Reflex-Nikkor 1000mm F11: Digital Photography Review

I've got a Russian 1000mm mirror thaT I have to take out to play. I just need the time and motivation to do it!

[tim60]

I've got a Russian 1000mm mirror thaT I have to take out to play. I just need the time and motivation to do it!

Which one?

[Thagomizer]

It's an older MTO, I think. It came in a wooden case with a selection of huge filters for b&w shooting, and it looks like this: MTO 1000 10/1000 m42 mirror meniscus russian lens / top35mm.com

[tim60]

It's an older MTO, I think. It came in a wooden case with a selection of huge filters for b&w shooting, and it looks like this: MTO 1000 10/1000 m42 mirror meniscus russian lens / top35mm.com

That appears to be much older than mine. Mine is the Rubinar 1000/10 made in 1998. It has some different features.

[ivanvernon]

Some sample shots with the K-1 and Mamiya 645 C 500mm f 8.0 reflex. These are JPEGs hand-held and SOC.

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[ivanvernon]

I just got a copy of Tokina 500mm f 8.0 reflex in MD Minolta mount. Minolta mount lenses on Pentax have to be used with an adapter containing glass to compensate for incompatible cross-camera registry distances, and this ordinarily reduces lens acuity. Even so, this reflex lens is at least as sharp as the one I have been sampling from Mamiya. Both are 500mm f 8.0. Snaps below are with K-1.

[Ash]

Eagles and ducks, by the Tamron 500/8, in Derby (Western Aus):

[steamloco76]

Tamron 500/8 55BB

[marcusBMG]

Tokina 500mm f 8.0 reflex in MD Minolta mount

if you're going to try a mount swap, this is the lens to do it with - no complications. Get a junk pk mount lens from somewhere as a source of a pk mount. preferable to using an optical adapter IMO.

[Thagomizer]

if you're going to try a mount swap, this is the lens to do it with - no complications. Get a junk pk mount lens from somewhere as a source of a pk mount. preferable to using an optical adapter IMO.

Back when I was shooting Canon, I converted my Minolta MD mount Tokina 500/8 to M42, for which I already had an adapter to Canon EOS. Yes, pretty simple: it must have been for me to get it working!

Here's what I was able to do with it on my 20D:

Documentary



Poetry



I've since sold this modified lens on, preferring the performance of the Tamron 55BB.

[jack002]

I took this with my 500mm Tamron SP

[ivanvernon]

if you're going to try a mount swap, this is the lens to do it with - no complications. Get a junk pk mount lens from somewhere as a source of a pk mount. preferable to using an optical adapter IMO.

Thanks for the advice. Sorry to miss your response, but Holidays have been hectic.

[Riggson]

The Vivitar Solid Cat 800mm on a K70. Unfortunately the bird is wider than the DOF of the lens for the distance I was shooting from. Darn there mirror lenses anyway.