200-500mm F2.8 Sigma

[Xerox]

http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/news/img/200-500_28_s.jpg

200-500mm F2.8 Ultra telephoto lens.
Looks very heavy.

More info on it here (http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/english/news/200_500_28.htm)

[firstmazda]

WTF!?!??!
It's like a friggin cannon!
How do you take a pic with that thing hanging off the end
of your camera? It needs it's own tripod.

[majic]

lol.. where's the camera?!?!?

[Kevin@nextmod]

Looks like those binocular eyes in submarines.

[iconicrocket]

You can definitely get a workout carrying that thing around.

[3GFX]

Hey if you need to compensate this is your lens :chuckle



The Sigmasorous likes to breed with cameras and dine on distances.


http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7268/sigmazz6.png (http://imageshack.us/)

(geek sold separately)




http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/Sigma/sigma200500mm-big.jpg

[Xerox]

Hey if you need to compensate this is your lens :chuckle


^^ LOL

The first pic with the geek has the hood attached that's half the size of the overall lens! It just wasn't big enough they had to attach a massive hood on it. :chuckle

[JMAK74]

Farkin' Huge!

You mount the lens to the tripod - and guessing that it would weight a ton, a very strong tripod.

What's making that lens huge is the f2.8 - basically means it will allow a lot of light in at any focal length as it can be set at f2.8. Other lens you'll see a range i.e. f4.0-f6.5. To do that you usually need a ton of glass and a big opening to let the light/image in.

Considering Sigma's 50-500mm f4-6.3 sells for $1,500 - guess this costs about $12K at least.

JMAK

[bluntman]

Let's not forget this baby...
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/photokina2006/Misc/IMG_0919.jpg

However, it's only an f4.

[3GFX]

Dang, that's massive!!!

[JMAK74]

Farkin' Farkin' Huge!!!

I think that was a custom order - it weighs something like 550lb.

[ZeroChalk]

?!?!?!!! Man, I imagine bringing that around.. that's some serious business.

[Hinata-sama]

Soooooo big~~~ http://download-v5.streamload.com/d7tW_ujo~ljIL~p0fB~95aS~Xd21pmjw8ubc/hinata_asian/FileManager/new/%CC%BAJ%5BXD%5D.gif