"At Koshien Stadium the photographers' seats are situated next to the center-field back screen so as to enable news photographers to shoot the home plate, which is over 130 meters away. From this position it requires a focal length of 1200mm to capture the pitcher, the catcher, and the batter in frame, and a focal length of 1700mm to shoot a full-frame vertical photograph of the batter. In short, the 1200-1700mm was developed for shooting pictures from the photographers' seats at Koshien Stadium.
In 1980s, a rival company was making a 1200mm f/5.6 super telephoto lens. The newspapers were beginning to switch over to cameras made by this company in order to use the lens in their coverage of baseball at Koshien Stadium.
In May 1989, Nikon rushed to begin development of its own super telephoto lens for Koshien Stadium. The company resolved to complete the prototype by March 1990, in response to the fervent wishes of the newspapers."
A friend of mine bought one of those insanely expensive 1200or +mm tele or a tele zoom when he was 15 (now 43), so around 1980s. He probably used it a few dozen times shooting some birds (his dad's birds) and probably more to look at girls walking by his house! Still has I believe. At that age, the bigger the zoom, the better!!
(I was using a 110 (small film) SLR camera made by Pentax.)
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(I was using a 110 (small film) SLR camera made by Pentax.)
@sailingmusic --- How much would the rent be? This the most expensive lens on the market, as far as I know.
It would be awesome for taking shots out in space.
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