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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“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.”
Hogwash. Such “convention” applies to clocks and clock-like indicators but not to other apparatuses. When a screw is turned clockwise it actually gets smaller…
In case of zoom lens it’s an arbitrary decision which way it should work and there is no right or wrong way about it.
I don’t think it would be a practical focal length, it mixes shortish telephoto with long telephoto and obviously sacrifices quality of the lens. I’d rather have two lenses such as 70-200 and say 200-400/500 or so.
It would cost around as much as the 200/2 or 300/2.8
I can’t imagine that Canon would reduce max tele on an update to the 100-400. They could however make an 70 or 80 to 400 like Sony do without increasing cost, size or weight. What I’d like to see is a 100-500 F4-F5.6, combined with improved IS.
Going for F4.0 at full tele would make it much bigger and heavier, and not a replacement for the curren 100-400. Just look at Nikon’s 200-400 F4.0 which cost around US$ 6000 and weigh 7.2 lb
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