Quote Originally Posted by alexniedra
TheCanon EF 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II Lens is lighter and much more affordable. Image quality isn't really important, anyway. [img]/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img]</sarcasm>

Why waste money on such an expensive and heavy lens like the 80-200 f/4.5-5.6 II? It would be lighter and much more affordable to just smash the bottom off of a coke bottle and duct tape it to the lens mount. []