On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 00:13:22 GMT, "Jay Beckman" wrote:

>Stopped by a favorite camera store today to peruse the Canon FD glass case
>but the lens that most impressed me:
>
>A Canon EF 50mm f1.0
>
>Wow, what a hunk of glass!
>
>I swear the rear element was of a larger diameter than the front element of
>my FD 300 f4.
>
>What I found most intreguing about it's construction was the fact that the
>rear element, the supporting structure and the electronic contacts were
>flush with each other. If you hold it up at eye level and look across the
>rear element, it looks like a glass of water which has been filled right to
>the brim and could spill over with the slightest jiggle.
>
>Just a real engineering marvel...A real expensive engineering marvel @
>$1799.00 (used...)
>
>Just thought I'd share my sense of awe...
>
>Jay Beckman
>Chandler, AZ
>(I did convince a snappy little FD 20mm f2.8 SSC to follow me home!)

You will continue to like this expensive, heavy, and
large lens until you see the images made with it - then
this $1800 huge heavy 50mm lens will not be quite so
interesting, I suspect, except as something to place
on a shelf and admire as an object...;-) ***Any*** 50mm
made by ***any*** manufacturer, if f1.4 or slower, no
matter how cheap, will easily outperform this lens...