Description
Comes with leather, front lens cover.
Indispensable to the “serious” sports photographer
The premier 300mm lens of its time, offering an extraordinarily large maximum aperture for its focal length.
- Large maximum aperture of f/ 2.8 provides bright and easy-to-focus images in the viewfinder and allows photography in very dim light
- Compressed perspective and extremely shallow depth of field
- Internal focusing (IF) design permit easy handling and quick, accurate, silky-smooth focusing without any extension in the lens barrel
- Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass insures crisp images free of chromatic aberration
- Focusing ring can be preset so that it will stop at a particular distance setting for rapid re-focusing
- Built-in telescopic “bayonet type” lens hood and 360° rotatable tripod socket collar
- Lens construction: 8 elements in 6 groups
- Picture angle 8° 10’
- Aperture scale f/2.8~ f/22 on both standard and aperture-direct-read out (ADR) scales
- Exposure measurement: Via full aperture method; meter coupling ridge provides for AI cameras and meter coupling shoe for pre-AI cameras
- Distance scale: Graduated in metres and feet from 4m (13ft) to infinity ∞
- Weight: 2500g
- Filters: (Rear/Front) 39mm screw-in via special slip-in filter holder/122 mm front screw-in
- Usable Teleconverter TC-200*, TC-300 or TC-14
*usable, but there is occasional vignetting
