{"id":4610,"date":"2009-07-31T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:00:10","slug":"16-kg-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/31\/16-kg-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"16 kg lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for laughs; is this the heaviest lens available at consumer retail?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-lens\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bloglens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-lens\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And mind you; the lens above actually exists. It\u2019s the Sigma 200-500 f\/2.8 APO EX DG Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens, and retails for a very cool USD28,999.00. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013DAPNU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=livingroom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0013DAPNU\">Amazon<\/a> offers free shipping too LOL.<\/p>\n<p>It does look like a portable mortar launcher, no?<\/p>\n<p>And when you thought that\u2019s the Mother of All Lenses, here\u2019s another one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-lens-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bloglens02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-lens-02\" width=\"580\" height=\"164\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the Nikkor 1200-1700mm f\/5.6-8P ED; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.mir.com.my\/rb\/photography\/companies\/nikon\/nikkoresources\/zoomsMF\/12001700mm.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.com.my\/rb\/photography\/companies\/nikon\/nikkoresources\/zoomsMF\/12001700mm.htm\">Link here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for laughs; is this the heaviest lens available at consumer retail? And mind you; the lens above actually exists. It\u2019s the Sigma 200-500 f\/2.8 APO EX DG Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens, and retails for a very cool USD28,999.00. And Amazon<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/31\/16-kg-lens\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  16 kg lens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-toys-technology","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}