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You don't even have to spend that much. The f/4 version of Canon's 70-200 can be had for around $600 new and it's a fantastic lens.
by danbee 12y ago
You don't even have to spend that much. The f/4 version of Canon's 70-200 can be had for around $600 new and it's a fantastic lens.
- georgemcbay 12y agoYup, this is true. The way the article used the lens was as comparison to something similar to the effective f/2.0 the Lytro camera uses; if you're willing to go 2-stops slower (f/4) instead of 1-stop slower (f/2.8) then the lens costs can be reduced even more substantially. In any case, the original comparison isn't all that useful anyway since the Lytro is a very different beast than a traditional digital dslr, but the bottom line remains while I think the Illum is cool, $1,600 is about 4x what I'd pay for it (which isn't to suggest the cost isn't justified based on BOM and/or R&D costs, it probably is, but that is irrelevant in calculating its value to me personally).