Which mirror lens 600 to 1200 should I buy for my Canon EOS300

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I am a professional photographer. I have mamiya 67pro for my studio and out door photography. Recently I bought a Canon EOS 300 with Sigma 28-135 for my publishing work. Now I would like to add a AF mirror 600mm or larger. What should I buy? Nasim Akhtar

-- Nasim Akhtar (printingprofessionals@hotmail.com), May 15, 2002

Answers

Does anybody make a mirror lens that fits EOS besides Sigma? (600mm, manual focus, $380).

If you need really long reach you have a lot more options (and would get better quality) with a conventional telephoto, but most of them are very pricey. Sigma's 500/7.2 isn't bad (do they still make it?), and if it's just for published images instead of huge enlargements you could put it on a D60 and get what, a 750mm equivalent?

-- Terry (tcdvorak@aol.com), May 15, 2002.


Some Russian lens manufacturer offers 1000mm Mirror M42 mount. You can put it to EOS with M42 - EOS mount adopter. But the lens is very low quality.

If you can afford, you'd better buy Canon EF 600mm F4L and x1.4 & x2 extenders. If it's too expensive, then you'd better consider Sigma 50- 500 F4-6.3 EX HSM and x2 EX teleconverter which covers 50 - 1000mm focal length.

If you don't need other than mirror lens, buy Sigma MF Mirror 600mm F8 EOS mount and get Kenko MC1.5 and/or MC2.0 teleconverter.

-- Ken Itoh (KEN@clara.oc-to.net), May 15, 2002.


Don't bother with the Sigma 600 F8 mirror. My father had one, and it was a dreadfully poor lens. With TCs it will be even worse. Don't bother with mirror lenses at all. There are no AF mirror lenses for Canon EOS (Minolta made an AF mirror lens, but uptake was poor). All are MF and fixed aperture.

-- Isaac Sibson (isibson@hotmail.com), May 16, 2002.

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