You Call That A Lens? THIS Is A Lens!

Someone with a few bajillion Euros to drop and a desire to shoot wildlife from really far away hired Carl Zeiss to build a giant lens to affix to his/her bajillion dollar Hasselblad medium format camera.

The result:

http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B8B6...l_side_med.jpg
This 1700mm beast weighing 564lbs.

http://www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9/C ... e100393a1b

(via Engadget)

f/4

*yawn*

i want one!!

As far as I'm concerned, the Arabic writing on one side makes this the IDEAL spotting lens!

http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B8B6...tl_top_med.jpg

And Futt comes in with the keen perceptive sense!

nice catch!