From Germany
I had this info this morning, but I wasn't given a link or a store name to backup any of the info.
Koch Foto has the lens listed as discontinued.
http://www.fotokoch.de/…..
The info comes from a German forum
http://www.dslr-forum.de/showthread.php?t=608971
The poster was told by Canon Germany that production of the lens had stopped.
Thanks Wolfram
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True. Given the 30-40% price increases over the last two years, let’s adjust that to $2500-3600. There is however too big a gap between the $1100-1300 300mm f/4-400mm f/5.6 class of tele primes and the “cheap” end of the super teles with the $4300 300mm f/2.8. They ought to offer something in between.
That’s would be the 14-800mm f/1.2 DO IS L lens I’d say.
But why wouldn’t it be f/1.0 or f/0.8 ?
It would need a new rock-solid tripod and a very advanced and accurate AF.
Neh in make believe land this lens is only 14oz no need for a crazy tripod. DO is light but I’ve never been super happy with the IQ.
Yes lets revise the lens:
14-1200mm f/0.8 IS L (white lens) 14 oz. and 5 inches in length.
lets be realistic and raise the price to $2800.
Ok I promise last time I revise the stats on the lens.
||“Sometimes when getting a new twist lens
||I twist it the opposite way of what I want.”
|You are not buying Canon lenses.
Canon lenses zoom counter-intuitively for me too – that’s one thing that Nikon got right. By convention most things that turn in our culture do so clockwise from lower to higher.
This has turned into speculation about a replacement. How about a 100-350 f4 IS? With a 1.4 teleconverter that would be 140-(almost)500 f5.6 — nearly 800 efl on a crop body.
That could be a rather handy configuration.