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Re: [OM] Massive Canon Lens

Subject: Re: [OM] Massive Canon Lens
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:53:48 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I can't find any information about this lens at all.  Nearest thing Canon 
has in their online catalogue is a 600mm f/4 for $11,499.00:

https://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/catalog/ef-600mm-f-4l-is-ii-usm

>
>Why not just get a telescope?
>
>>     It may have been that large.  I didn't take a close look at it.  
>>I was absorbed in talking with the fellow who was carrying it on a 
>>shoulder strap.  He said that even carrying it like that was tiring.
>>
>>> 
>>>> a Canon 600mm f/1.8.  It was about three feet long and eight inches 
>>>in diameter
>>>
>>>ONLY 8"?
>>>
>>>The entrance pupil (600/1.8/25.4) on such a beast would have been 13.12".
>>>
>


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson


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