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Originally Posted by okiscopey
Thanks for the Canon Europe link Bojan.
When you say there are alternatives "for 1/10 of a Canon price" are you talking about lenses, and if so, what are these alternatives?
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Yes, I was talking about lenses....
For instance, russian made Tair-11A ( I have it for years, I can send you some sample images if you want to compare) is comparable in performance with equivalent Canon at f5.6, it seems, maybe only slightly worse.
It is available on ebay for US$70 or so.
Also, APO Telezenitar 135mm is excellent, according to people who use it, and for ~US$260 it is 1/10 of the price for Canon 135mm, absolute bargain (it is manual of course). I intend to buy this one as soon as my budget allows :-)
Currently I am playing with Tamron 200mm, it seems to be very good (using eyepiece, I still need adapter to fit in on 400D).