Archive for February 6th, 2008
Huge Canon Lens – 1200mm F5.6 USM
February 6th, 2008 | 
Author: There is a shop that has a lens that makes the Sigma one that featured on this very site look positively weedy!
It is a Canon 1200mm, F5.6 USM lens. They’ve been around since 1993, but are made to order at the rate of about 2 a year – There is less than 20 out in the wild!
The world’s largest interchangeable SLR AF lens, in terms of both focal length and maximum aperture. Two large fluorite elements eliminate secondary spectrum, resulting in extremely sharp, high-quality images. With Extender EF 1.4x or 2x. a whopping focal length of 1700mm f/8 or 2400mm f/11 can be obtained respectively.
The price? Well run along and snap one up at $99,000 secondhand!
You got the cash (and the muscles) go here – B&H
Or buy new here – but have £70,000 ready but that does include vat.
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Digital camera shipments hit new record
The number of digital cameras shipped by manufacturers in any one year has, for the first time, broken through the 100m barrier, according to Japanese industry figures.
Statistics show that 100.37m units were shipped during 2007 – a 27.1% rise on the previous year, according to the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA).
This increase was due to a far higher than expected growth in shipments of digital SLRs worldwide and a rise in shipments of compacts to areas such as North America and Asia.
CIPA predicts a 22.3% growth in DSLR sales in 2008, more than double the growth rate of digital compact shipments which are forecast to rise by 10.7%.
Demand for DSLRs continues to fuel the market for interchangeable lenses whose unit shipments shot up 43% in volume terms compared to the 2006 figure. Total unit sales of lenses in 2007 hit 12.51m.
