Dave BenhamSigma | Dave Benham http://www.davebenham.co.uk Photography, web and words. Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:59:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Lens price shoots £8000 in one month http://www.davebenham.co.uk/290/lens-price-shoots-8000-in-one-month.htm http://www.davebenham.co.uk/290/lens-price-shoots-8000-in-one-month.htm#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:34:55 +0000 Dave http://www.davebenham.co.uk/?p=290 sigma200500I’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…

]]> sigma200500I’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!).

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Pictures courtesy of DPnow.com

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