60-250mm lens very expensive

[mike wilson]

Frits Wüthrich wrote:

> On Fotokonijnenberg,
> http://www.fotokonijnenberg.nl/product_details.php?id_product=26431
> the price of the lens is nnb (nog niet bekend = not yet known), and in between 
> brackets it is mentioned: € 840336,13 excl. btw, so that is without the Value 
> Add tax of 19%. I can buy a few houses for that. I was hoping it would be 
> somewhat more affordable, so I wouldn't be forced to rob a few banks.

For that price I would be expecting it to go out and take pictures by 
itself.  And they had better be prizewinning ones without exception, at 
that.

It is at least two orders of magnitude out.  Hopefully three.