Indeed - met a Canon collector the other day who actually owns the
200/1.8! The hood alone costs more than $500 from B&H, even if you
can persuade Canon to make you the lens.
Strewth.
AndrewF
On 15/06/2005, at 11:47 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> That day was right interesting anyway. There was a _lot_ of high-
> dollar
> Ca*o* and N*kon glass shooting the alewife migration and the birds
> feeding
> on it. I got to talking to a fellow with a D2X outfit that cost
> more than I
> make in a year (including his Gitzo carbon fiber with Wimberly head
> and a
> flash so large it required wires to hold it up on his
> 1000000000000mm glass)
> and he said the New England Nature Photographers were meeting in
> the area.
> Most of the shooters were not pros. I looked as his gear and my
> (relatively
> speaking) compact E-1 and I was right glad to be an Oly freak.
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