$90,000 17,000mm camera "lens" (more pics added)

[Lucky]

Wheee!!!

It's a 1200mm 5.6 mated to a Canon DV cam that multiplies the focal length 7x, with a 2x converter added on for fun.


Even more impressive: Nikon 1200-1700mm

 

[MeanMeosh]

holy crap! where are the sample pics?!?!?!?! i want pics!

 

[Gunslinger08]

Jesus christ!

 

[isekii]

wow, perfect for paparazzi

 

[Mill]

Wow.

 

[conjur]

Wow...you could see the boogers in the nose of the man on the moon!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Hmmm... so thats how they get all those nice pics of girls changing with a window open!

 

[cjchaps]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
holy crap! where are the sample pics?!?!?!?! i want pics!

 

[Beau]

jeebus. I want one.

 

[Bootprint]

I wonder if you can even touch the camera while using it, the shake must get really amplified even on a tripod.

 

[ElFenix]

thats a 214 mm piece of glass on the end there... jebus!

 

[ndee]

yeeeeeeeeah, sample pics!

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
I wonder if you can even touch the camera while using it, the shake must get really amplified even on a tripod.

I'd doubt it... Unless the tripod is hydraulic coupled and auto balanced. Even then... heh

I know what I'm asking the wife for my birthday next week! heh

 

[Spooner]

dayum.

 

Somebody call lirion.

 

[cliftonite]

Mine is still bigger than his

 

[filmmaker]

Good lord, that thing is twice the size of the cam itself!

 

[EXman]

Whoa but it is 80K Wish I just had an XL1s

 

[BigSmooth]

You could take great pictures of the Statue of Liberty with that thing... while standing on the Golden Gate Bridge! :Q

 

[dman]

What's with a review without pics from the actual lens... we used this this and this, here's a pic of the equipment. BAH!

 

[UNCjigga]

Lirion will have it in a few months...

You don't mount this lens to a camera; instead, you mount a camera to this lens.

That's pretty much what I gathered from the pictures!

 

[KC5AV]

wow... just wow.

 

[Eug]

I've tested a 1200 mm Canon EF EOS camera lens at the camera store. (Henry's in Toronto - It wasn't usually for sale - just on display that day.) The thing was absolutely monstrous, and cost $120000 Canadian (which is about US$85000-90000). Totally awesome, and autofocus too! The detail you could get out of that thing was absolutely stunning. And it worked with a standard off-the-shelf Canon EOS SLR camera body. It looked kinda the same as the one in the picture. Not sure if it's the exact same model though. It was several years ago.

The sales guy said nobody in Canada (back then) had ever bought one.

 

[Lucky]

Doubt it was the same one, since these are custom made. But who knows.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
holy crap! where are the sample pics?!?!?!?! i want pics!