what was this used for in practice? what were they filming that needed such telephoto?
Some proposals:
- Launch of Saturn V rockets from a safe distance. NASA had learned from the first launch. Before, NASA had used 50mm lenses on several motorized Nikon F cameras near the launch pad, following Robert Capa's rule: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Motorized Nikon F cameras are so rare today...
- Did you know that the landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 that we all saw on TV was actually not filmed by the astronauts on board but by nouveau-riche japanese tourists from the ground after a Brezel and Bratwurst in Munich?
- The original Paris Hilton movie
- Jimmy Hoffa's funeral, but the lab ruined the film. Unfortunately, the photos of Emilia Earhart's safe landing in Peoria, Illinois, were on the same roll. Today, nobody knows that she fell in live with a farmer and stayed there. Even less people know that her first daughter married Elvis in 1982, but the film was given to the same lab...
- All evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction... actually, someone had played a trick with Cheney. The photographs that were labeled as 'satellite photos showing a chemical weapons plant in Iraq' were photos taken with one of these lenses, showing George W. Bush's toy train diorama.
- The chinese government has ordered some of these. Reason: the situation of human rights in Tibet is far out.
