Posted by Daniel Loomis on September 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Saving my bottle caps for this one! Of course I will need some native bearers to get it out into the field!
It is the Canon 1200mm. They are handmade and cost around $100K each.
Posted by Aaron Szabo on September 24, 2008 at 9:47 PM
That guy is using a Canon XL-2 video camera on it. You could be a peeping tom from half a mile away with that lens.
"With a price tag equivalent to a pair of his-and-her sports coupes, they were produced at the rate of about 2-per-year and a delivery time of about 18 months. National Geographic magazine, Sports Illustrated, Canon Professional Services, and a few well-heeled enthusiasts are counted among the fortunate few who own these unique optics. A box of donuts says the Feds probably have a few squirreled away somewhere, but this is something we can neither confirm nor deny. A Canon Extender EF 1.4x boosts the beast up to a 1680/8, and the Canon Extender EF 2x will get you to a 2400/11. For what it's worth, if you couple this lens to a Rebel XTi or EOS 40D you end up with the 35mm-equivalent of 1920/5.6, a 2688/8 with a 1.4x extender, and a 3840/11 with a 2x extender. If you need to focus any tighter to your subject you'll have to hop a plane and fly there." -- http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Mother-of-All-L-Lenses.jsp
P.S. -Photography is my hobby, filmmaking is my job.
Posted by Randy Wilson on September 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the name Canon.
Posted by Tim Mulholland on September 25, 2008 at 7:06 AM
Daniel,
Where did you get this photo? The background is from someplace during the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, February, 2002 (I recognize that scrim on the fence - I was a volunteer at Utah Olympic Park during the winter games). Therefore, it appears that there's a lucky sports videographer playing here, maybe getting ready to do some shooting of downhill skiing or something like that where it's tougher to get close to the action...
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3 repliesIt is the Canon 1200mm. They are handmade and cost around $100K each.
"With a price tag equivalent to a pair of his-and-her sports coupes, they were produced at the rate of about 2-per-year and a delivery time of about 18 months. National Geographic magazine, Sports Illustrated, Canon Professional Services, and a few well-heeled enthusiasts are counted among the fortunate few who own these unique optics. A box of donuts says the Feds probably have a few squirreled away somewhere, but this is something we can neither confirm nor deny. A Canon Extender EF 1.4x boosts the beast up to a 1680/8, and the Canon Extender EF 2x will get you to a 2400/11. For what it's worth, if you couple this lens to a Rebel XTi or EOS 40D you end up with the 35mm-equivalent of 1920/5.6, a 2688/8 with a 1.4x extender, and a 3840/11 with a 2x extender. If you need to focus any tighter to your subject you'll have to hop a plane and fly there." -- http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Mother-of-All-L-Lenses.jsp
P.S. -Photography is my hobby, filmmaking is my job.
Where did you get this photo? The background is from someplace during the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, February, 2002 (I recognize that scrim on the fence - I was a volunteer at Utah Olympic Park during the winter games). Therefore, it appears that there's a lucky sports videographer playing here, maybe getting ready to do some shooting of downhill skiing or something like that where it's tougher to get close to the action...
Tim!