5200mm

[Andy]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-5200mm-F14-lens_W0QQitemZ180294096815QQihZ008QQcategoryZ3323Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Mr. 2H2O]

Bummer, doesn't look like it will take my 2.0x TC...otherwise...

- Mike

[ziggy53]

So, ... who's gonna?

If you didn't like it you could post it in the "pay it forward" thread. :thumb

[Moogle Pepper]

Holy.... :huh

[RogersDA]

I'd make a great door prize at the DGrin Birthday party.

[Schnauzer]

I would get it but it doesn't have IS.

[swintonphoto]

I'd make a great door prize at the DGrin Birthday party.

I could watch the party from my house in Kansas with that thing.

[Manfr3d]

I would get it but it doesn't have IS.

Gravity will parall.. eh stabilize this lens :)

[Tee Why]

When did Canon have their logo with a blue background? I know China has the highest protection for copyrights and such, so I don't think it's a fake sticker.
:D

Anyway, it looks hand holdable for the zoos, in case I want pictures of animals pores on their noses or something.

[Llywellyn]

I think this would solve Baldy's dilemma for that enormous panorama he's been shooting for. :D

[Maestro]

It's only manual focus. Sorry, I take too many bifs and other action shots so I need the AF. Plus it is F14 so it is useless in low-light situations. :rofl

[Awais Yaqub]

bit too wide for me
sorry ...

[Cuong]

Hey, Andy, maybe you can convince Vincent Laforet to test this lens with the 5D Mk II.

Cuong

[cmason]

I think this would solve Baldy's dilemma for that enormous panorama he's been shooting for. :D

sure, if he wanted a photo of the NYC skyline, from San Fran!

What application could this possibly be designed for? Astrophotography would likely get better use from a real telescope than this? I can really only think of one application: photographing someone or something that you don't want to know is being photographed. Chinese 'company' indeed.

[Matthew Saville]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-5200mm-F14-lens_W0QQitemZ180294096815QQihZ008QQcategoryZ3323Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAww, bummer, it's just $5,000 over budget for the Smugmug + Laforet + 5D mk2 video initiative! So close, and yet... Oh well...

=Matt=

[jdryan3]

Whah? Engineers will build a custom mount? You mean to tell me its an FD mount? Might as well budget $55,030 (plus those refrigerator shipping charges) and get this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-FD-Lens-to-EOS-EF-Body-Mount-Adapter-Hoya-Japan_W0QQitemZ200258083796QQcmdZViewItem?hash=ite m200258083796&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C 240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)

[Seymore]

So, who's going to handhold this WA lens? :rolleyes

[jogle]

hmmm, handholding at 1/5200th of a sec at f14...... got some big big big big lights?

[chuckinsocal]

Heck ... at a mere 220 lbs, without the stand, I could shoot all the surfers in the county from just one location. No more driving up and down the coast.

But first I need to check to see if I have enough extra room in my camera bag to squeeze this baby in.

[joeinmiami]

Let me see how many pennies I have in my pocket.........

Joe :cry

[Vanquiz]

It comes with Canon OEM lens pouch :rofl

http://www.thecompostshop.co.uk/images/giant%20bag%20square.JPG

[jww]

..I would bid on it, but I was holding out for the 2.8 version and an RV to mount it to. :wink

[Nikolai]

Andy,
when are you gonna *sell* it? :wink

[pyry]

If that thing doesn't quite make a useful photographic tool, you could always use it as a coffin for one, very enthusiastic, photog.