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E500,E510 now dead,E520 (now retired),E600 and Grip,14-42,14-45,2x40-150,Sigmas 105 and 135-400 Now Dead..ex 25. Manfrotto 190. Plus lots of OM stuff. Now also 4 items from the dark side...........
I had the (well regarded at the time) Tamron 500mm f/8 for a while but I'd never consider a mirror lens again unless I wanted the doughnut bokeh for a particular effect.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
David's right, I dabbled with with a OM 500mm mirror lens many moons ago, eventually sold it. Apparently it was well regarded as one of the better ones but in my experience it didn't even come close to my 50-200 and EC-20 combination. You will experience poor light gathering, extremely narrow depth of field (tricky to focus) and that lovely doughnut bokeh
On the positive side they are obviously compact for a 500mm, which is what attracted me and cheap of course.
Regards Huw
Panasonic S5 Mark II & Olympus Stylus 1
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I tried a Russian mirror, a Tamron mirror and the Olympus 500mm mirror and while perhaps good in their day, on the E-series none of them compared even closely to the modern Oly digital lenses for sharpness and contrast.
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