If you fancy getting your palms on Canon's mighty (and we should always say, extraordinarily uncommon) Canon EF 1200mm f/H.6L USM telephoto lens, then head for Park Cameras' Burgess Hill retailer in West Sussex on Saturday March A.
The lens has a mysterious historical past, and its exhausting to say what number of of them truly exist. What we do know is that this lens can chart its historical past again to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the place 5 FD mount lenses have been utilized by the press.
After being returned to Japan they have been transformed to Canon's EF mount, with the lens made out there to buy by way of particular order. A $ 10,000 deposit was required, with the lens solely going into manufacturing as soon as a number of optics had been ordered.
There at the moment are considered solely round 20 in existence, with one used mannequin showing three years in the past with an asking worth of £ninety nine,000.
As nicely because the epic EF 1200mm f/H.6L USM, Park Cameras will even have each Canon EF lens at present in manufacturing out there to get your arms on.
Technical specialists from Canon UK can be available to reply your questions, whereas Canon geek and professional photographer David Newton can be holding a collection of free seminars.
To study extra and to e-book an area on a seminar, go to the Park Cameras web site.