Quote Originally Posted by Dr Croubie View Post
I've seen a few of these on ebay, going for around $50-$100, in various brands.
I don't have the cash to drop to play around with it, although i'd be interested in knowing how well they perform too.

Just take into account, if it only costs $100, don't expect it to deliver the quality of a $2000 supertele, if it did then everyone would be raving about them (like how the $400 Samyang 35/1.4 delivers IQ almost as good as the $2000 Zeiss 35/1.4, everyone *is* raving about that as good value. noone's raving over these teles so i suppose that's your answer).

Still, if you get/have one and don't like it, i'd probably drop $30 inc shipping just to play around with it for a few hours and forget about it, much like the price of a case of beer that lasts a few hours...
I agree with every single thing you said... I mean no one in their right mind will think that this lens would be any where near the expensive, better quality ones but what about the philosophy that "An Average shot is better than No shot at all".

I would gladly spent 100$, If i can find one in Australia for $100 (which i doubt highly because of the The Great Australian Tax) just to play around with it but that is just my opinion.