UPDATE
I received confirmation that the lens is the 800 f/5.6L IS. The shot was taken with a 400 f/2.8L IS. Weird look to it though.
Hmmm
A comment on the last thread brought up this image of a Canon pro with an unidentified lens.
To me, It looks like the 800 5.6L IS. The problem is, it doesn’t seem like the right size for it.
What do you think?
The image is from here: http://www.usa.canon.com/
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the body is too small too…
The 800mm is the only one that has a focus ring like that. The 600mm, 500mm and 400mm lenses all have different looks to them.
That said, the lens looks way too small to be the 800mm. Perhaps a new 400 f/4 L with IS? (hey…we are on a rumor site…might as well start one!).
I think it’s the 800mm. This guy just has really big hands that make it look small, and the perspective is not similar at all to the perspective of product shots.
Nothing to see here, move along.
800mm
400mm 2.8 IS
it looks like a nice photoshop works,
the perspective plains of the front of the lens and the body don’t seem to be parallel.
a good joke ;)
Andreas
400mm F2.8 IS mk II?
The 400 mk II is mentioned in the manual for the 1D IV which was posted on this site a month or so ago (see page 218 – C.Fn III-1)
I see no reason why this is not the 800mm.
The dimensions seem right. My only guess for the confusion is angle of the shot, and more than likely the photo was taken with a telephoto lens, so subject is flattened.
The 800mm is a tad bit shorter and skinner than the 600mm.
Also the 800mm and 400mm f/2.8 have same size objective, and both use the same lens hood.
It can get very hard to identify these lenses from sharp angles.
It’s the 400mm 2.8 IS. That image (old) has been badly “photoshopped” by a photoshop noob. I have seen that image in sportsshooter.com a few years ago (4 yrs ago if my brain cells are healthy).
That’s Peter Read Miller and that shot is old as the hills.
In his Q&S section he uses a 400mm and the lens has the same flowing body of the 800mm.
what child is this….
Is it jeremy beadles hand?
400mm f1.8
This is a really bad Photoshop job. Talk about botched – even a noob like me could do better.
The person in the photo is completely flat, almost like a cutout.
It is the 800mm f/5.6. It is not as long or big as the 600mm. The slant in the focusing ring is the giveaway. The 400mm f/2.8 is way too big for this shot. Agree, it is a bad cut and paste job. Scroll down thru this link and you will see a side-by-side comparison of the 800 & 600.
It is the 800mm and modified in photoshop. When I look at the photographer’s human body it looks like it was compressed either by content aware scale, or something else.
Someone else started that rumor a few days back. Its a 800mm lens.
I’ll say it is a 600mm. Probably a new lens to be release.
If you looked at one of the clip fromt he link provided, there is a scene where a similar lens was labelled 600 attched to a body.
the 100-200 f/2
Too bad you don’t have that magic image enhancement software used by all the CSI shows on tv, you could read the text on the lens hood to figure out what lens it is…
Generally, you would not see anything larger than a 400 on the football field, I think the most used lenses are in the 300 to 400mm range, from what i’ve read.
800MM. Peter is a big guy. When I see him at the SuperBowl I can ask him if every wants.
that’s not what i would call ‘nice’…
a realy bad picture for a company that sells professional cameras. if that happens again, i offer them my studio work if they pay me with another 1D mkIV :)
I was in a wolf camera in florida last weekend, and remarked at the 2.8 feature of this lens. It’s a 400mm f2.8 with IS.
Besides the fact that it’s obviously shopped?
Eh…it’s a photograph. It’s “flat” because it’s two-dimensional.
It may not even be “shopped”, it looks like when someone cut and pasted it in they changed the porportions with the handles. Peter is not that skinny and his head is not that tall. It is an 800mm! He is using it in one of his videos.
+1000000000000000000
+infinity
it’s a new missile launcher disguised as a canon lens.
Forget the lens, where the heck did his chin go??
Read carefully. That is the 400mm f/2.8 non-IS that came before the current 400 f/2.8 IS.
The 400mm f/2.8 and 800mm f/5.6 should have very similar sized front element – 142+ mm.
It’s the 800, and it looks like it was photoshopped, cause like someone said earlier the lens and body don’t seem to be at the same angle.
Also, here’s a similar but not exact view of the 800mm from the same side, the side you usually don’t see.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsaypunk/2987515317/
300 2.8 MKII ! i think
My first thought too, why would he want an 800mm for the feild – maybe for the crowd.
and as others say look at the lens and body angles – they don’t match.
Could it be the 800mm DO lens
Why does every photographer apart from me have facial hair like that? All of them! Yes, even you! Don’t deny it… Creeps me out!!! And who cares what lens it might be? Why the hell is he grinning like that?
That guy has a lot of teeth… They match the lens’ color…
Hi Folks
EF500 2.8
Thats right. It should be the 500/2.8IS. I used one in Bejing 2008 olympic Games.
Gerhard
500mm F/4. I just used one this weekend and would bet on it.
Canon doesn’t make a 500 2.8 that I know of.
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