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04/14/2005 12:55:07 PM · #1 |
I was looking through a thread on FM about the name "Magic Drainpipe" for the 80-200 f/2.8L and came across a whole list of nicknames for different lenses that fstopjojo posted.
Just for fun:
Magic Drainpipe - 80-200L
Coffee Grinder - 100-300L
Dust Trombone - 100-400L IS
Plastic Fantastic - Tokina 19-35
Plastic Piston - 90-300
Pocket Rocket - 80-200 F4.5-5.6
Coke Bottle - 16-35L
Prime-Pipe - 200 F2.8L
Hyper Pipelet - 135F2L
Grandad - 50 F1.8 Mk1
Thrifty Fifty - 50 F1.8 MkII
Radar Gun - Sigma 170-500
Bigma - Sigma 50-500EX
Goldfinger - Champagne Coloured 24-85USM
Popeye - Sigma 12-24HSM
BogRoll - 75-300 (Non-IS)
Fake Drainpipe - Sigma 70-210 F2.8 APO
Breadwinner - 28-70L
Breadwinner Mark II - 24-70L
The 300D is "Plastic Percy" ;-)
20mm Sigma - "Bargain Bucket" / "El-Hombre"
55-200 USM II - "Pocket Rocket II"
18-55 EFS - "Dogtoy"
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04/14/2005 12:56:35 PM · #2 |
My plastic percy is happy with it's bogroll thank you :P
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04/14/2005 01:00:40 PM · #3 |
Johnson - 500mm f/4
Johnson on viagra - 600mm f/4
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04/14/2005 01:03:48 PM · #4 |
Don't people refer to the some of the long white L-glass as "Big Canon"?
I can't remember if it was a specific one (maybe the 600) or if perhaps it was just a generic term of endearment.
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04/14/2005 01:39:46 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Don't people refer to the some of the long white L-glass as "Big Canon"?
I can't remember if it was a specific one (maybe the 600) or if perhaps it was just a generic term of endearment. |
The big white lenses are commonly referred to as "The Great Whites."
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04/14/2005 01:41:04 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Don't people refer to the some of the long white L-glass as "Big Canon"?
I can't remember if it was a specific one (maybe the 600) or if perhaps it was just a generic term of endearment. |
The big white lenses are commonly referred to as "The Great Whites." |
Nice...
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