Lens price shoots £8000 in one month

I’ve got some bad news if you’ve been saving up for the monster Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 zoom lens pictured above. Just as you managed to scrimp and save the last of the £15,999 recommended retail price it’s now gone up an incredible £8,000 during February! £23,999 for a lens? I think I’ll lose that extra few stops and go for a teleconvertor thanks all the same.

According to Amateur Photographer’s report on the price increase, there are customers for this lens – military and nature shooters apparently. How you could move stealthily with this is a bit of a mystery, but with the mysterious “attachment” listed on the product page you double the reach to 400-1000mm f/5.6.  It’s the scale of the lens that is mindblowing (and muscle destroying – 14kg of glass!).

Pictures courtesy of DPnow.com