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So you're on the 100-500 f/4 bus as well? Better start working out old timer! :cool:

:LOL: ...Mark -- buddy...take a few deep breathes and try to calm down. You seem upset, and it's brought the inner child out of you. You do know Canon product strategy isn't determined by what a single user types on a rumor forum don't you? I mean, you do know nothing I or you say is going to...

were you...thinking? :ROFLMAO:Or are you...high? :cool:

Geometry and physics is what I've been told.

not exciting enough. Lets just rehash the 100-400 II and give it an extra 100mm on the long end. That'll get the lemmings blood pumping and the cash registers ringing!

Rest assured, Canon will in all likelihood give you a RF 100-500 f/4.5 - 5.6. It will weigh 2kg so your old timey frame can carry it. ;) It'll cost $2000 so you won't have to dip deep into your saving. ;) IQ will be slightly better then the 100-400 II and people who spend way too much time on...

No...it's actually still your problem. I reject your premise that the 100-500 is a response to a bunch of shitty, super telephotos designed 5 years ago (except for the Sony 200-600). Because here's the thing. I want Canon to create lens which sets the market. And you want them to make lens...

I want the lens in the 10-15k range. I already said it. Can you cope with that?

I have no idea what you're on about man. But by all means, keep going.

Sounds like someone is going to be real happy when they pick up a 10k glass for an almost 50% discount!

unwieldy...only for the puny.

Now come on...How is that, not the BIGMA! That's not a lens...it's a plasma canon!

Sigmonster! I love it!

Seems you are right. Having never owned or used any of sigma lens I figured BIGMA would be reserved for the actually Big...Sigma. The 200-500 f/2.8 and the 300-800 f/5.6. Those are truly BIGMA's (Big M'fing Sigmas)...but I guess a cheap 50-500mm can be big for some people too. ;)

Ok, lets unpack because you've assumed a lot. First off, the BIGMA 200-500 was a f/2.8. That's why it was so heavy. A similar f/4 would be significantly lighter. The BIGMA was also made in 2008 (probably designed 5 years before that). So we're talking 15 years or more. Many improvements have...

I've seen it. Used it. Recommend it! Yes it will be expensive, and heavy and ridiculously cool. So far, I don't see a problem.

Hmm...Ok.

I guess anything is possible. Can't say i've encountered such people before...but I guess there always someone out there complaining their big, fast glass is just too big and too fast!

You had Birders in a hide, complaining about a 500mm f/4's weight? Implying they were hand holding ... in a hide??! Who does that? I mean...with so many tripods and gimbal heads. Sheesh.

I take your point and agree completely -- everything I have said hinges on a future R1 exceeding all expectations and taking the crown from the 1dx III. But hey...if the R5 comes in as rumored...*fingers crossed*...I can't see how the R1 won't be even better!