Has 70-200 f/4L always been beige?

Cadwell wrote:
It's because most photographers are male. Men think in primary and secondary colours and the major shades. Red, green, blue, black, white, grey I can understand. "Beige" isn't part of my vocabulary. Neither are all those other colours that only seem to exist for women like “amethyst”, “fuchsia”, “taupe” or “mauve”. I have absolutely no idea what those colours are.... never have known and am happy NOT knowing.

So... my big "L"s are lighter than black, are not obviously blue or green therefore they must be WHITE! Simple

yeah right and males only make B+W or primary colour pics

Simon king wrote:
yeah right and males only make B+W or primary colour pics

No... cameras take pictures... they're gender neutral (unless of course you're French?)

I expect that's funny but I don't get it.......

I believe he is making a reference to the french language. I could be wrong.

Most people don't balance properly, I notice that pictures are always wrong.

It has a touch of beige, mixed with grey. If anything, I would call it an off grey colour.

The reason I posted this:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=71587
is so people could compare the lens colour to the well known reference points either side of it i.e. 18% grey cards and the WHITE apple software pocket, illuminated by daylight
Compare that to this :
http://consumer.usa.ca​non.com …tegoryid=150&mo​delid=7345
and tell me its the same colour, just a question of balance

Simon king wrote:
I expect that's funny but I don't get it.......

Females have more color photo receptors on their retinas and better developed parts of the brain responsible for recognition of those colors.

So they are able to differentiate between hues much better then males. A guy sees 10 shades of blue... they're all just "blue" to him. When a girl sees 10 shades of blue, it's 10 separate colors.

That is is so unfair. First they get breasts now this?

Ya B&h makes them look brown, Canon white, real thing is in the middle. You would think they would properly balance the pictures, especially the ones on the EOS webpage. On the other hand, the whit'ish tone would fit in alot better on the Canon page then the real color, but that's somewhat misrepresenting it, even though it doesn't matter to me.

I think white is the correct description. Aside from being male the reason I think this is that all other lenses are black. It is just to logical to consider the somewhat white lenses WHITE.

Apparently always a popular subject anyway. So I'm happy now and sure that if I buy a white car it won't ever be made by Canon.

As for the suggestions, I'm sure condyk has the correct reason. The Japanese are prolific smokers, so that explains why truely white lenses are either unobtainable or extremely rare. As for your suggestion blue_max - I don't even want to think about it.

Thanks again for all the info - and so far as I can ascertain (dictionaries sometimes being confusing) the French words for "telephoto lens" and "camera" are masculine, but "photography" is femine. Go figure.

lancea wrote:
Thanks again for all the info - and so far as I can ascertain (dictionaries sometimes being confusing) the French words for "telephoto lens" and "camera" are masculine, but "photography" is femine. Go figure.

It's not logical... it's an ethical interpretation.

IE in russian, the lens is masculine, camera is feminine and photography is neutral.

I prefer to think of my 70-200 F4L as being off-white. That's about as far as I go

You can make anything look white in post processing.

Trivia: They're engineered to find plants. Guys are engineered to see motion (prey).

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