Oh yeah.... gotta get me one of these. perfect for doing headshots... in another county! I am just guessing, but this thing should probably not be handheld at slower shutter speeds. Well, since it weighs in at a portly
564.383391 pounds... probably! My buddy
David is going to want one of these to shoot his sports stuff. I love the fact that we can build that sort of thing. (How long before we see one on EBay?)
At 1700 mm focal length and a speed of f/4 this lens put requirements on optical glas, lens assembly and quality assurance methods, never before encountered in photo lens manufacture. This 256 kg behemoth also required Carl Zeiss to develop totally new ways of operating a telephoto lens, including servo controlled aiming and focusing.
See one at
Photokina.
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