If you look at the pictures of the lens by itself, it doesn't look that big. It has the normal proportions of a barrel.
Until you realize that it takes 116 mm (that's 4 inches for you imperial boys and girls) filters...
It. is. big!
This is how it looks on my camera (with teleconverter):
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| My camera is dwarfed (and the lens hood isn't even extended that much). |
You can hand hold it. Sort of.
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| With teleconverter |
And with the teleconverter it becomes a 2000mm lens. Remember that comparison I did for the autoguider? Here's that same pylon (which is about 1.2 km away), but now at a 3000mm equivalent. Note the now readable text!
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| Taken with the kitlens at 55mm: note the pylon at the red arrow. |
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| With the MTO-11CA and teleconverter: so very tele! |
Some quick shots also revealed the donut bokeh we know and love of mirror lenses.
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| Notice the bokeh in the lower right corner |
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| Donut bokeh lights |
I can't wait to point this thing at the moon!
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