With my impulsive buying getting better of me , i recently won on ebay a super- takumar 500mm f4..5 manual beast of a lens. Initially i was cursing myself to the core , why on earth did i even bid on the same? Post winning i browsed through eBay and found the price points of the same lens in other bids was significantly higher ( at least some respite ) . I paid for the same and waited for lens to arrive. All of my search on the lens and on images clicked using that did not help me much. I got more pictures on web of the lens itself instead of pictures clicked using it . Whatever limited pictures i could search raised my hopes , and lens looked nothing but a stellar performer. Most of the reviews spoke about few negatives - 1. Heavy 2. Chromatic aberration. 3. Impractical for active wildlife. 4. MFD being 10 mts Well , so the lens arrived.. It had no dedicated lens case and was packed in a bubble wrap. I had to pay customs duty which made the lens almost ar...
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