Canon 5200 f/14 lens!?!?

[Zack Birlew]

Hey guys, you've got to see the listing for this lens on eBay. This lens is screaming to be put on a RED! I would post a link but I don't remember if it's allowed or not. Just search for it and you'll see. The price is currently $45,000, I considered it but I need a new car more than a specialty lens:closedeyes: oh well.

Just curious though, has any REDuser, anywhere, ever seen or tested this lens out?

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

$45 grand? Psht... That's nothin'....

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...n_2527A001_Super_Telephoto_1200mm_f_5_6L.html

$120,000! Granted, it's 1200mm as opposed to your 5200mm, but still...

How about an eBay link?

 

[Matthew Duclos]

I'm pretty sure he is referring to this lens:
Ebay- 5200mm
It's been circling ebay for a couple years now. Not sure how many are out there...
But it's totally and utterly impractical. I wouldn't think twice about the above mentioned 1200mm Canon. A steal in my opinion.

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

Holy Crap!!! That thing's a god damn telescope! How could you even use that lens? and WHY! If you were in a press pool for some Obama address, you could see up his nose with that thing from half a mile away!

 

[Roberto B]

Hey guys, you've got to see the listing for this lens on eBay. This lens is screaming to be put on a RED!

not with birger or it will void your warranty.. iggy: warranty trade-in etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRq18WpQZC0

 

[Tonaci Tran]

It would be nearly impossible to shoot with, without that huge motorized head.

 

[Iannis Holwech]

They all fall short in focal length compare to the 5200mm but are maybe a little more user friendly.

The Canon f5.6 1200mm for $120,000, you can use a 2x telekonverter and get 2400mm, but you lose autofocus. :willy_nilly:

The Canon 1200mm lens in use; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0E-nZOlY_k




Other nice lenses;:eek6:
The Zeiss Apo Sonnar T* 4/1700



The small black box at the end is a Hasselblad! :rolleyes5:






Sigma APO 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG lens
The world's first Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens that offers a fast aperture of F2.8 at 500mm focal length




LEICA APO-TELYT-R 1:5.6/1600mm $2,000,000.00

 

[Zack Birlew]

Of course the Leica would be $2 million, good grief!

Still, the possibilities of this lens are pretty high, especially for stock footage stuff. Looking at the Youtube video, just look at the moon there, awesome. But yeah, the only trouble is what to put it on. You'd need a heavy, heavy duty tripod to use it or, as was said, a motorized head setup. Either that or start working out a lot more!:thumbup1:

I wonder if you could put a 2x converter on it, that'd be a trip. Probably not though, I'm sure it's too much glass and magnification going on there already. Best bet would be to use an APS-C camera to get more range out of it.

 

[John Nouel]

What about this one?

What about this one?

http://gizmodo.com/353414/massive-panavision-bazooka-hd-lens-delivers-300x-zoom

And its for a 2/3" chip. Then what would be the 7-2100mm focal lenght equivalent to 35mm?

 

[Felix K.]

Does it come with a mattebox?

 

[Jeff Zueger]

I'm pretty sure I'd have to get a new case

 

[christopher witzke]

I'd hope for a clear day.... humidity and/or convection would yield a soft image.

but jeez.... cool stuff.

 

[Juhan Malmstein]

I can swear I saw a video on youtube some time ago where they mounted a Canon video camera to that 1200mm monster achieving something like ~10000+mm with it. Can't remember if the camera was SD or HD but it had an interchangeable lens mount and they used some Canon adapter to mount the camera to the lens(not the other way around:sosp so it was a complete canon package, but I couldn't find the video anymore.

 

[Mitch Gross]

It was a Canon XL2, which means the magnification factor is about 7x!

 

[Darren Orange]

Just don't point your camera at the sun....with that thing on it

 

[Filip Orlandic]

Just don't point your camera at the sun....with that thing on it

instant blindness... : )

 

[Pawel Achtel]

Hmmm, I recokon I could shoot some penguins in Antarctica if I set this thing up on the cliff top in South Australia. :smilielol5:

 

[Filip Orlandic]

MOON - Effective focal length 5000mm f/20

MOON - Effective focal length 5000mm f/20

This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.

Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.

I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.

Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.

Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function.

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