Ooh, I like. Maybe I could paint my Canon 300 with Nikon black paint, rebadge a 5d to say Nikon D800, and impress clients who think I'm capturing 36 MP. Or not.
Photon wrote:
Ooh, I like. Maybe I could paint my Canon 300 with Nikon black paint, rebadge a 5d to say Nikon D800, and impress clients who think I'm capturing 36 MP. Or not.
That's funny.
However, think bigger than D800......think Leica S2-P.
Photon wrote:
Ooh, I like. Maybe I could paint my Canon 300 with Nikon black paint, .
Darn you. The secret is out.
@Peter - please send me $10 as you bet with others in the 200-400 thread.
You see secretly I have been testing and using the 200-400, but to keep it secret, we did the black Nikon paint treatment and threw on what looked like a Nikon to Canon lens adapter. In reality the adapter was really the buitin 1.4 TC, so you wont be the first in Canada. Sadly when it is officially available I will have to swap it for one with Canon white paint.
@Peter - please send me $10 as you bet with others in the 200-400 thread.
You see secretly I have been testing and using the 200-400, but to keep it secret, we did the black Nikon paint treatment and threw on what looked like a Nikon to Canon lens adapter. In reality the adapter was really the buitin 1.4 TC, so you wont be the first in Canada. Sadly when it is officially available I will have to swap it for one with Canon white paint.
Oh no, Robert, you will not get me to accept a bet on 200-400L. Knowing your clout with Canon Canada, you are most likely to get the first production unit as well.
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I think I understand better now how it might have been possible for very many mint 200 f/1.8 lenses to turn up in South Korea several years ago, when they used to fetch close to $5,000 on eBay.
EB-1 wrote:
Nobody in their right mind would want a Nikkor to look like a Canon lens.
Perhaps the motive is other.
The same reason the super-telephotos are white in the first place.
If I used a big, large lens most of the time and for long periods of time under direct sunlight, in high temperatures, I would rather have it white, regardless if it resembles or not a lens from another manufacturer.
A black lens under direct sunlight for an extended period of time will always be much hotter than a white lens under the same circumstances.
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