Kimunor 500mm f8 Super Tele-Photo Lens

[Gas Man]

Just wondering if anyone has used any of these, you see them all the time on places like eBay, are they any good at all ?

[Tannin]

I guess that they are very cheap, probably mirror lenses, and pretty much useless. For starters, at f/8 you have no auto-focus capability. The cheapest usable 500mm lenses are around $1500 new. How much does the Kimunor go for?

[Gas Man]

I'm not sure, was just curious to see how they were, I know I can get a Tamron 400mm for $1500 roughly.

[Tannin]

I'm only guessing about it. No doubt someone else who knows (rather than just guesses) a bit about them will be along before too long. But you should be OK with the Tamron, or any of several others in the same general class. I've seen people post very nice pictures using them.

[arthurking83]

I'm guessing that this Kimunor lens is more likely to be of the Newtonian type rather than a reflector type.
The non mirror type of 500mm lenses seem to be cheaper(therefore suggesting cheaper to manufacture?).

The only issue I'd have is one of resonance. Having such a long and thin lens produces resonance(and with that, lots of vibes and blur) on most camera bodies(having Mirror Lock Up helps).

It's going to be manual focus, most likely and that may also be hard to do with most DSLR's too.

I suppose I should actually research my replies before posting, rather than make baseless assumptions

I have a Nikon 500mm mirror lens, and it can take the odd great photo.. but I can assure you it's bloody hard work!
(and I need a much more stable tripod to make them )

Tamron's 400/5.6 is a good lens apparently.(I did research them a little back when I was looking, and found some good images coming from them)
But at $1500.... that would be the 400mm f/4 manual focus lens???

For $1500 you can get a Sigma 50-500mm(very good from all the samples I've seen) or a Sigma 150-500mm for less than $1500(I think)

There are very few great 500mm lenses that sell for very little money.

Tamron's 500mm mirror is OK.
Sigma's 600mm mirror is supposed OK too.
There are a multitude of Opteka, Kenko, and M42 adapted lenses available too.

What camera are you using it on?

[Gas Man]

Thanks for the info fellas, much appreciated, i'm asking because i'm kinda new to this all and don't understand all aspects of cameras, lenses, photography in general, haha.

I am going to buy a Canon 40D, Arthurking83.

[BBobe]

I have one of these lenses and used it fine on my Canon AE1 Programable 35mm film camera. I now have an Canon EOS XTi and am looking for an adapter for my lenses. I am not very savey when it comes to cameras so could use some help.

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I found this.

2" UltraWide Prime Focus Adapters for Telescopes with 2" Eyepiece Ports Non-Vignetting SLR/DSLR Telescope adapters! for Canon EOS, Nikon, Olympus 4/3 and more

I can not see how it mates with my lenses.

At this site:
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I found this.

Fotodiox M42 Lens EOS Adapter for Select Canon Cameras - Black

Any one got suggestions of how to mate these to my camera???

Any suggestions or other solutions???

Thank for your help

[yarnella]

I have an older screw-mount version of this lens. It is not the Super version that you reference. It is MF and I use it occasionally on my K10D.

It is not perfect but I got if for nothing so I am not complaining.

Here is an example image:

_IGP5942 by Ray Allen, on Flickr