This short video released by Canon USA just a couple of days ago tells the story behind one of Canon's most impressive optical achievements: the $78,000 Canon CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5. 0-8. 9 CN20x 50 IAS H/P1 lens introduced in 2014.

We don't cover much broadcast equipment here on DPReview, but even we couldn't help taking note of this impressive lens when it was first announced.

As Canon USA Senior Fellow Larry Thorpe explains in the video, this lens was the result of a challenge posed to Canon by wildlife filmmaker Ivo N

Zoomed all the way in, N keep the lens size manageable: no more than 15lbs (~6. 8Kg) and no longer than 16 inches (~40cm).

It took four years, but this is what Canon came up with:

Credit: Canon

It wasn't easy. Thorpe calls this lens "the most challenging project ever undertaken by the Canon optical design team. " But in the end, N

Check out the full video above to hear the story from Thorpe and see the lens in action capturing footage of wolves in arctic Canada, only 1,000Km (~620 miles) away from the North Pole.

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