lens compatability

[Robert A. Zeichner]

A Fujinon 300T should work fine for portraits. Telephotos typically require about 60% of the bellows draw that a non-telephoto design would need. At infinity, the 300T would need about 180 mm of bellows. My recollection is that this was about what I experienced. You should have 249 mm up front. Keep in mind that you could draw back the rear bellows to get another 23 mm and if you were able to obtain a telephoto lens panel (25658 is the part number), you'll gain at least another 10-15 mm. Does this mean that you'll be able to do close up work? Not really. Besides, you wouldn't want to mess with a telephoto for that anyway as they behave a bit oddly with any tilts or swings used up front. And then there is the exit pupil factor that needs to compensated for if the image size exceeds about 1/10 of the actual object size. For portraits, you should be fine though.

[d.s.]

Thanks to everyon for all the information,

Robert, I'm interested in head and shoulder framing, so this lens sounds like it may work for me.

How is the bokeh on the Fujinon 300 T? Does anyone have a shot they can post that was done with this lens?

Any mor lens recomendations?

Thanks, dee