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I bought a (admittedly Tokina) 500mm mirror lens more than a decade ago. It was the worst lens I have ever bought, blurry across the whole picture. I could get
by mnw21cam 5y ago
I bought a (admittedly Tokina) 500mm mirror lens more than a decade ago. It was the worst lens I have ever bought, blurry across the whole picture. I could get more detail out of my 70-300mm zoom lens, and much more detail out of my 400mm prime. To this day I don't know whether this was because the lens was awful, because all mirror lenses are awful, or because my lens just needed maintenance.
- shagie 5y agoThe lens was awful. I think I had one of those in my early bag too. The lack of autofocus and a focus screen that doesn't make it easy to do it manually makes it even worse. The split prism screen isn't found on cameras other than manual focus bodies or as an option to swap out on the higher end professional bodies of the time. For a good one - http://www.rokkorfiles.com/500mm.htm http://www.rokkorfiles.com/500mm.htm (and another review of it - https://casualphotophile.com/2021/04/21/minolta-rf-500mm-f-8-mirror-lens-review/ https://casualphotophile.com/2021/04/21/minolta-rf-500mm-f-8... ) One of the things with the reflex lenses is that they don't have chromatic aberration that one sees in the more traditional lenses because all of the wavelengths of light are reflected the same and there are minimal traditional lens elements in there.