The editor of Digital Camera World, James has 21 years experience as a magazine and web journalist and started working in the photographic industry in 2014 (as an assistant to Damian McGillicuddy, who succeeded David Bailey as Principal Photographer for Olympus). It will be fascinating to see how much it commands at sale in October, and who ends up buying it… The Canon EF 1200mm f/5.6L USM features 13 elements in 10 groups, with an 8-bladed aperture, and it's an absolute behemoth that weighs 36.4lbs / 16.5kg and measures 836 x 228mm / 32.9 x 9 inches! "The annual production volume was approximately two lenses, each lens took more than a year to be built, due to the time required growing its massive fluorite crystals – only very few specimens are known to exist today – offered for sale at our coming auction on October 09th 2021 in Wetzlar!"
"The world’s largest interchangeable SLR autofocus lens, in terms of both focal length and maximum aperture – available on special order only, each lens was produced after it was actually sold," reads the Facebook post (opens in new tab) by Wetzlar Camera Auctions ( spotted by (opens in new tab) Canon Rumors). So when a sample comes up for sale, it commands a ridiculous price (not least because replacement parts do not exist, so it is necessary to cannibalize another lens in order to repair one), with a lens fetching $180,000 in 2015.
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