Oh boy...how am i going to explain this one to the wife. Man, i hope the optical and image quality match the price. Now, what can i pawn...oh yey the car!
Well, if all we can go on to predict the quality in is by relying on the past, while it may be true that there's been some grumbling about Canon's wide-angle lenses ... historically Canon's super telephotos have pretty much been peerless across the board ... so I believe "this" upcoming super telephoto lens here will be no exception. The old 100-400 was pretty much priced as a budget lens; this lens is supposed to be in the class of Canon's elite super-telephotos.
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Or playing the lottery. Especially since there's a snowball's chance I'll ever spend that much money on a lens otherwise
Paul
While no one knows what the price will be at this point, the fact is Canon has made major
increases in the prices of all its second-generation IS-II super telephotos, and with the new 500mm IS II hitting B&H Photo at a $9,500 price point, I am pretty sure that this new 200-400 IS II is going to be mighty painful to buy. In fact, $8000 might be a "low" guess.
I agree, if that's about where the price is launched, it is not a small chuck of change, but I also know that on the end of my 7D (and with the 1.4x
built-in converter) I will pretty much have a 320mm-896mm potential reach, which is a lot of covered ground and (really) means I don't have to do any lens-swapping at all. If the quality of this lens is as high as expected, I think a lot of people will only buy "this" lens as their only dedicated super-telephoto. And while I am sure Canon will price it accordingly, in the long run its flexibility will probably make it worthwhile.
Jack
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