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Re: [OM] Lenses and light don't mix?

Subject: Re: [OM] Lenses and light don't mix?
From: "Hans van Veluwen" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:48:22 +0200
: >I also got a chance to look at what for me has been the largest telephoto
: >lens I have seen yet.  Canon had a 1200mm f5.6 lens set up in one of the
: >local shops.  All I can say is incredible.  Impracticle but incredible.
: >The front lens element must have been at least 30cm in diameter!  No
: >price was mentioned and noone I asked knew what it would cost.
: > -mark
:
: It must have been the size of a canon as well ..... and probably weighed
: about as much!

The Dutch F+D Yearbook 1999 lists its price at Hfl.199.000 (about US$
100.000); it weighs 16.5 kilo. Anybody still complaining about the 350/2.8
Zuiko?

Hans



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