Hi, are you sure you get better pictures with a telescope than with an extender? I'm only asking as I plan to buy some telyt thing and I'm currently using a 2x extender.. Regards Phileicangenieux Jonathan Lee wrote: >I don;t really want to use the extender. Since my 250 Telyt >performance is decent but not stellar, I would think that the 2X >extended version would be only so-so in terms of image quality. Plus >f8 is pretty dark in the finder. > >I just saw this: >www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/Pentax-800mm.shtml. I think >I can work out something like this for my 500mm and 1000mm telescopes > >Jonathan > > >On 11-Oct-06, at 3:02 PM, William Abbott wrote: > > > >>Jonathan, >> >>That other lens might be a 2X-Extender; it will cost you 2 stops but >>you know where the ISO adjustment is on the DMR. >> >>All best wishes, >> >>Bill >> >>On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Lee wrote: >> >> >> >>>Alternatively I could just buy another Leica lens. >>> >>> >>------ >>Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: >> http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >>Archives are at: >> //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ >> >> > >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/