{"id":740,"date":"2008-02-17T01:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-17\/740"},"modified":"2008-02-17T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T16:30:41","slug":"sigma-200-500mm-f28-zoom-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-17\/740","title":{"rendered":"Sigma 200-500mm f\/2.8 Zoom Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"http:\/\/sigmaphoto.com\/lenses\/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3349&amp;navigator=3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/sigma200500mm-big-002.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"425\"\nalt=\"Sigma APO 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"isigma200500mm_big_002\"\ntitle=\"Sigma's 35-pound APO 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG zoom lens\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Sigma APO 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>11 months after being announced, Sigma's <b>200-500mm f\/2.8<\/b>, 35-pound\nmonster is finally available for purchase. When it was announced almost <span class='nobr'>a\nyear<\/span> ago, <a href=\"\/blog\/index.php?s=200-500\"><span class='nobr'>I\nna<\/span>&iuml;vely\nspeculated<\/a> that it might run $6,000, so it was <span class='nobr'>a shock<\/span> when <span class='nobr'>I found<\/span> it\nat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yodobashi.com\/enjoy\/more\/i\/82247061.html\"><span class='nobr'>a retailer<\/span>\nin Japan<\/a> for about 2.6 million yen (US $25,000). <span class='nobr'>I haven't<\/span> seen it in\n<span class='nobr'>a US<\/span> retailer yet, but <span class='nobr'>I doubt<\/span> it'll be substantially less.<\/p>\n\n<p>I wouldn't have gotten one at $6,000, but at $25,000, all <span class='nobr'>I can<\/span> say is &#8220;wow&#8221;, and note that my birthday is coming up....<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 months after being announced, Sigma's <b>200-500mm f\/2.8<\/b>, 35-pound monster is finally available for purchase. When it was announced almost a year ago, I na&iuml;vely speculated that it might run $6,000, so it was a shock when I found it at a retailer in Japan for about 2.6 million yen (US $25,000). I haven't seen it in a US retailer yet, but I doubt it'll be substantially less.<\/p> <p>I wouldn't have gotten one at $6,000, but at $25,000, all I can say is \"wow\", and note that my birthday is coming up....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}