Re: [APML] Canon 200mm f/1.8L Lens

[Chriss Hoffman <chrisshoffman@adelphia.net>]

Robert,
Probably one of the best lenses ever made by any manufacture. I owned one,
before I was doing astrophotography and still to this day regret selling it.
This months issue of Sky & Tel (August? Horsehead on the cover) has a cool
rig featured in it that is using a custom CCD chip mated to several of these
lenses, they are getting 50,000 stars in a single second exposure! The lens
is extremely well corrected and flat, though I never used it doing astro
shooting, hope some others here have some experience with this lens, as I
still can borrow my old lens and will do some shooting later this summer
trying it out.
Best,
Chriss

on 7/1/04 0:44, rcommage@ix.netcom.com at rcommage@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Does anyone have experience using the Canon 200mm f/1.8L lens for
> astrophotography? And, if they have, is it worth tracking one of these
> rarities down and buying it?
> 
> Thanks for any comments on the subject.
> 
> -Robert Commagere
> 
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