1700mm lens anyone?

 

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0610/06100101zeiss1700f4.asp

 

and for an idea of it's relative size, here it is attached to a Hasselblad camera:

 

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/photokina2006/Misc/IMG_0919.jpg

 

[Andy] I want that one [/Andy]

 

:shock: :D

that must weigh a ton

pmfsl :rofl: what the hell would you do with that??!?!?!?!?!

 

Not like you're going ot be able to carry it in your bag, you'd need a mondeo estate and 6 umpa-lumpas just to carry it round with you :rofl:

isnt that the hubble space camera?

I bet the fooker aint cheap?

pmfsl what the hell would you do with that??!?!?!?!?!

 

Not like you're going ot be able to carry it in your bag, you'd need a mondeo estate and 6 umpa-lumpas just to carry it round with you

 

Word on the grapevine is that an obscenely rich Sheikh commissioned it for wildlife photography...presumably he gets his man-servants to foray out before he leaves for the days safari to chain the odd elephant to the spot in readiness, while another 12 strap it to the back of his Humvee... :wack: ;) Either that or spying on naked girls at the local oasis. A mile away. In clear line of sight of course. :D

 

I bet the fooker aint cheap?

Considering some of the lens blanks (unpolished) are about the price of some "luxury" saloon barges, there are 15 of them and polishing them increases their price, you can conservatively say that just the lens elements are around £400,000 and that's just for the glass. All the mechanical parts and the electronics, plus the cost of designing it could make this lens way over £500/550,000...

That Hasselblad looks like medium format too so it's a HUGE lense.

 

Rather impractical though - even a decent 500mm can be a bit unweildy.

that must weigh a ton

 

256Kg :shock:

 

Reminds me of one of those Top Tips from Viz years ago:

 

"Don't waste money on expensive binoculars, just walk closer to the object you are viewing" :rofl:

So what kind of range/image is that thing going to give you?

I've got a 10x zoom on my Sony :D :rofl:

good for long distance dogging lol

good for long distance dogging lol

steve mcfadden ( phil mitchell ) and stan collymore have ordered one each. lol

steve mcfadden ( phil mitchell ) and stan collymore have ordered one each. lol

 

what you expect from stan collymore he ex southend boy lol

what you expect from stan collymore he ex southend boy lol

yeah thats true. does he go dogging with deve8uk. l0l