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Wheres the red ring?? All this glass and not L series? 8)
You would want to have a tough neck strap for your camera with this
bad boy attached to it! LOL
my good mate Evan in China with one of only 3 in the world insanely huge 5200mm f14 Canon lenses .
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Stan AKA Roadie 42 months ago | reply
Every peeping toms dream lens. LOL
fredygump 41 months ago | reply
How many extension tubes do you need to photograph a bug from 100' away????
calix041809 40 months ago | reply
Canon 5200mm F14 Prime Lens. The world's largest dedicated SLR Super Telephoto lens.
Extremely rare. Made in Japan.
Most probably a government ordered cold war spy tool - it certainly wasn't designed to look at the stairs with the use of it's ND filters...
It uses a mirror & lens combination. The front lens is massive.
Rear drop-in filters can be used.
•Focal Length: 5150mm
•Exposure Control: Light quantity is controlled with the use of built-in ND filters, corresponding to f/14, f/16, f/22, f/32
•Minimum Object Distance: 120 meters (Approx 393 feet!)
•Size: 500mm(wide) x 600mm(high) x 1890mm(deep) [20x24x75.6]
•Weight: 100kg (220 lbs) without stand.
From a Canon Flyer:
"This is the only ultra-telephoto lens in the world capable of taking photographs of objects 18 to 32 miles away (30km to 52kms away). Having a focal length of 5200mm, Canon Mirror Lens 5200mm can obtain one hundred times as large an object image as that of a 50mm lens."
"For focusing this mounted or fixed lens on an extremely distant object, two aiming telescopes are set on the side of the lens barrel, and the entire lens is placed on a rigid stand which rotates smoothly. Minimizing the overall length had been a big problem in designing this lens. However, the Catadioptric system that is applied to the other two Canon mirror lenses (Canon 800mm f3.8 & 2000mm f11) has succeeded in reducing it down to one third of the nominal focal length. In general focal length and optical aberration increase with each other, however, our long and persistent research and development have succeeded in solving this problem. Canon mirror lens 5200mm composed of spherical main and secondary mirrors and a correction lens would assure you of clear images."
The magnification of this lens is truly staggering.
If mounted to a Canon XL HD series video camera for example, a reach of 1000x optical (at least) would be possible (approx 37,500mm).
If it was mounted on a DSLR with a crop factor the magnification would be larger still.
BlkDarkness 38 months ago | reply
I bet that's fun to haul around when your taking nature pics. :D
DJWalker1 34 months ago | reply
I bet you wait till the nature finds you!!
valentinkruesmann 33 months ago | reply
it really is an amazing lens. I this at home as well. my dad was russian kgb!
Child of Enki 31 months ago | reply
I have seen a photo with this lens. its insanely good for the distance it covered.
Alter Ego 1975 31 months ago | reply
Why did everybody else here miss the one important question:
Does it have image stabilization, so that it can be handheld?
Kuntal Gupta 28 months ago | reply
ethaninflickr 26 months ago | reply
www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources...
*Bricktop* 26 months ago | reply
It's the only lens in the world that lets you take a picture of Chuck Norris before he hits you with a roundhouse kick! :-)
Behind.Glass 26 months ago | reply
Wow...that is all.
Martin Kühn 24 months ago | reply
lol
NHorton 18 months ago | reply
Its not a lens, but a secret mini nuke launching rail gun
manthus 18 months ago | reply
Omg :D
Jon Matthies 18 months ago | reply
Holy mother Merry and Jehoshaphat!
British Tech Photo Show 18 months ago | reply
What? No F2.8 version? for that money? I'm not parting with a cent for F14
sermoa 16 months ago | reply
i like how this is for things 18-32 miles away ... and yet it's shown indoors! :)
DTL 5 6 months ago | reply
But no teleconverters, so what use is it.....
A to B Photography 3 months ago | reply
Lol... don't forget to compensate for the curvature of the earth...