>>2881742Octagonal buddy. weak b8 m8
>>2881742Sadly no.
I'd heard about this lens from a friend. I was a Contax user, so I bought a 200mm f/2.0 Zeiss. Amazing lens, heavy as fuck but I took some amazing sports/wildlife shots with it. When Contax went digital and orphaned the Contax/Yashica mount, I considered upgrading but the lack of lenses stopped me. I used the Contax less and got into my Hasselblad more.
Fast forward to 2007 and I had bought a Canon 40D and someone was giving an open house to his astronomy business. He was thinking of making his own W.A.S.P. (google that, too long to explain here) so he got one of the 200mm 1.8 and I asked to borrow it. Big mistake. Even with the heavy optics and no IS, I could see the tiny hairs growing off his nose in an ambient light photo across the room at 1/15 second.
I skulked fleaBay for a while, the Canon 200mm f/2.0 IS was out of reach in terms of money being new to the market and virtually all the 200mm f/1.8's for sale were various types of beaters released for news organizations.
I used the Zeiss 200 for a while but the lack out autofocus limited what I used it for and the shitty C/Y to EOS adapters ruined some good shots. I nearly gave up but a chance conversation with a guy out watching the eagle count in Brackendale got me the name of someone who bought one but didnt use it any more.
I phone him up and he bought it, thinking it was only 3 pounds and change, not 3.5 KILOGRAMS. He was an old guy and he only used it on a tripod, so it never saw much use and I got it from him. Its the 2nd version which has a clear glass plate over the front element and a better series of coatings (green and purple, not yellow and orange). He never even put on the strap to carry it. I got it for about $4000 Canadian ba ck when the dollar was about $0.69 US so around $2700 US.
The tripod foot is shit though, so I got one from Really, Really Right Stuff plus a "Lencoat" neoprene cover to protect it.
