A6500 – Massive 500-1000mm Lens – It’s 80 Bucks, Does it Suck?

TO ANSWER IF IT SUCKS OR NOT: It doesn't suck for the price. I was impressed with the sharpness that could be achieved.
New $87 link: http://amzn.to/2p3Sbgn (the last one went up to $120)

That is a hilarious lens pretty good for the price. Weirdly. I want to see an even bigger lens

Did you really have to motion pin the mm number to that spec of dirt…

Yeah it sucks get the p900 or 1000

I can see how this lens could be usable on a body with very good high ISO performance and ideally a stabilised sensor. I only have cameras with an optical view finder but I imagine a good electronic one with focus peeking would help massively.

The portrait IQ was surprisingly good. For me the point of long telephotos is to shoot small things close up, like birds. Then you truly see how the optics perform without atmospheric distortion.

The trouble is I think you need a very expensive body to make this lens work and if you can afford that, why look at an $80 lens? Saying that I'd be tempted to buy one for a laugh and the challenge of shooting with it.

it sucks

The springs….. hmu

You might as well retrofit a telescope onto your camera lol

take care man! People will think that youre a sniper hahaahha

Good

Mirror reflective lenses are not very sharp and of course all manual. I got one just of the hell of it. it was really crappy piece of junk.

Il be honest, the music in the background and editing are sub-par at best but good content
keep up the work and youl go far

Will this work with Sony a5100?

man the digital stabilization effect on the stationary video clips makes me dizzy

This 500mm prime preset manual focus lenses comes from many generic brands. I got one under a "Five Star" brand for around 28 USD (PhP1500 Philippine peso) bought surplus from a thrift shop. For the cheap price I paid, I got sharp photos of birds at f11 straight from my Nikon D90 or D300. The 1.3x area crop mode on my Nikon D7100 turns it into a 650mm lens. I was able to follow seagulls and heron in flight, but not the quicker swifts and sparrows – which I use another technique for those shy birds such as pre-focusing and framing while at rest and waiting for it to flap it's wings and fly. It's a bit tricky to use when using full manual, luckily the Nikon D300 and D7100 offers metering for full manual lenses that I use auto ISO and exposure compensation so the exposure is always good under sunny conditions outdoors (shooting in shade or cloudy skies requires to raise ISO at around 1600 to 2500 or so). A bit bulky to travel with a 500mm that big and a heavy D300 so I just bought today a used but good old Panasonic DMC-FZ70 with a hefty 60x zoom (equivalent to 1200mm) which I'm about to try on a light travel. With a superzoom from 20-1200mm you can have all that bulky lenses in one small package, as long as you limit the ISO under 1600 in low light.

Does it fit a6000?

Is it applicable to put on an reverse ring for macro photography?

The price is cheap because it is a manual diaphragm; hence the open/close ring. When the 2X converter is used this will make the lens a 1000 f16. Still a good bang for the buck.

My fear of heights would make this video completely different.

You : stood near wall "We've got a church down here" leans camera over the edge

Me : stood spot on in the center of the car park "We got a nice safe wall right there, and juuuuust over that wall we're not approaching is a hill we're not photographing"

Super BudgetTelefotolens Rules!

Wow. I pulled this video up to have a laugh. But hey, that little Opteka lens is not awful at all. For $80, I was pretty impressed. I mean if you want to be real, it's made of some pretty flimsy material, and it focuses in more like a kids' telescope than a piece of photographic equipment, but if I had a 10 or 12 year old kid who is showing a budding interest in photography, I think this would be a great way to introduce them to telephoto lenses. Thanks Christopher!

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Haha you live in Greenville that's where I'm from

I bet all of that junk came out of the lens. I'd buy one, but i'm not trying to get my sensor dirty.

This will make my dick pics look HUGE

You need to turn off that YouTube auto stabilisation! I was wobbling everywhere!

You need to test it with a nikon coolpix p900

Color balance could be better and lots of green/purple fringing, but contrast and sharpness great for the price!

Helo how many pix have this Sony Alpha? From Up thx 4 answer.

Would this work for a Canon eos 60D

Back to the Russian Zenith SLR!

How about for a Canon EOS 80D got a lens like that for about $110.00

And the answer is NO!

Nikon p900 has better zoom

Actually at 500mm it didn't look to bad at all. 1000 was pushing it; though I think the heat in air had a huge part to play. It reminded me of what its like to look at the moon through a large dobsonian telescope, where the atmosphere creates a moving fluid like distortion.

great video bro. just what i was looking for

Nice bit of kit for discreet shooting. Amazing all the extras they threw in. If it was a big brand those add ons would cost more than $80 alone.

sony sucks

You should try photographing the moon. Also Mars in in opposition to the Earth right now and the closest it will be in 15 years. So you should also try photographing Mars and see how it looks like 🙂

What do I need for this to fit on a canon 700d ?

Should've made it a prime.

Wow thats good for the price

they are asking $300 for that lens 🙁

Why not use it to shoot celestial bodies?