B&H Photo Video Pro Audio- The Mother of all Telephotos:

“‘Lord G-d’ has also been exclaimed by those seeing a Canon 1200/5.6L USM for the first time. At 36lbs, 33′ long and 9′ wide at the front element, calling this lens a ‘tele’ is like calling King Kong a monkey.”

Now this is some serious telephoto lens: it has an angle of view of about 2° on a full-frame 35 mm camera, and is composed of 13 elements in 10 groups, stops down to f32, and has a minimum focus of 45.9′. The best? Image quality is pretty good, and with the weight of the monster, the vibrations must be quite dampened, which is sort of useful when you shoot something that’s a couple miles away. Check out the pictures below (courtesy B&H photo) which was taken from 2 miles away and shown here at pixel size:

Oh, yeah, one last detail: B&H is selling one second-hand, for a mere $99,000 (yes, ninety-nine thousand dollars).

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