Expensive Lenses

[RalphLambrecht]

Yea and what we have left we'll waste.

give it to me.I'll make sure there is nothing left

 

[RalphLambrecht]

How much actual use would these lenses be to anyone ?

to brag about having them; or to explain why their photography sucks if thry don't have them or cannot afford them.If I'm poor I have an excuse to be no good;if I were a rich man...

 

[benveniste]

I think the author only looked at still camera lenses. Professional video and cine lenses are a different game.

For Arri/Zeiss Master Prime prices, see:
https://www.abelcine.com/store/Arri-Zeiss-Master-Primes/

A network broadcast quality HD zoom can run $200K or more as well.

Want something you can easily use on your SLR? Well, the Zeiss CZ.2 zooms run $20K each, and then there's this little gem:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hasselblad-...IS-UV-LENS-ACHROMATIC-MONOCHROME/271793791272

 

[Dan Fromm]

Want something you can easily use on your SLR? Well, the Zeiss CZ.2 zooms run $20K each, and then there's this little gem:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hasselblad-...IS-UV-LENS-ACHROMATIC-MONOCHROME/271793791272

That's the asking price, but the lens may fetch it as a collector's item.

Somewhat faded glory, though. See http://www.jenoptik-inc.com/coastal...ainmenu-155/80-uv-vis-ir-60-mm-apo-macro.html and http://www.jenoptik-inc.com/coastalopt-standard-lenses/uv-vis-105mm-slr-lens-mainmenu-40.html

 

[benveniste]

The Jenoptik/Coastal Optic lenses are supposedly very good, but I can only imagine what they'd ask for a medium format lens.

 

[Nodda Duma]

Probably doesn't count, but...

I know of some $250k+ tracking optics used on flight test ranges. 36" and 24" diameter f/3 cassegrains. The surface figure on the primaries were beautiful to behold. Hand polished by a cranky old master optician.

They could be used with either visible or thermal video cameras.

 

[removed account4]

I prefer the "least expensive lens" thread, it is more fun...

its easy to get a crappy image and claim it is good from a 2 million dollar lens
but to get a great image from a $3 lens is a different story !

 

[Xmas]

All these lenses would be as much use to me personally as a chocolate tea pot.

Don't you like Easter eggs either?

 

[benjiboy]

Don't you like Easter eggs either?

I did when I was a child.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Were there actually eggs back then? Guess that settles the whole chicken-egg thing.

 

[Peter Simpson]

The guy whose company built the Barry Lyndon lens tells how he did it:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm

 

[benjiboy]

Were there actually eggs back then? Guess that settles the whole chicken-egg thing.

In answer to your'e flippant remark Martin, for the first eight years of my life during WWII there were no Easter eggs in the U.K, Sweets and chocolate was strictly rationed because our island was blockaded by Germany and importing cocoa beans and sugar cane risked sailors lives.
.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

My god man have you no sense of humor at all? Stodgy old codger.

 

[Dali]

its easy to get a crappy image and claim it is good from a 2 million dollar lens
but to get a great image from a $3 lens is a different story !

Bah, on the used market you can find decent lenses for that price! Now getting a great picture from whatever lens is a different topic. :confused:

 

[Dan Fromm]

My god man have you no sense of humor at all? Stodgy old codger.

Oh, come on Martin, stodgy old codger is my job.

Ben (see post #962 in this (there was a url link here which no longer exists) discussion) is the rare person who knows what he needs and has it. His wants are simple, his needs are few and he has enough.

Cheers,

Dan

 

[Sirius Glass]

My god man have you no sense of humor at all? Stodgy old codger.

Not an old codger, rather a man who takes a minimalist approach to equipment based on his vast experience and then can make make a few instruments and make them sound like an orchestra. He is was beyond his years unlike his critics.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

These high prices are a reflection of the increasing disparity of wealth. People buy things they never intend to use or share just for bragging rights.

Look at old cars. Even rather mundane ones are out of reach of the not rich.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Oh, come on Martin, stodgy old codger is my job.



Cheers,

Dan

Forgive my mistake. D

 

[benjiboy]

Oh, come on Martin, stodgy old codger is my job.

Ben (see post #962 in this (there was a url link here which no longer exists) discussion) is the rare person who knows what he needs and has it. His wants are simple, his needs are few and he has enough.

Cheers,

Dan

Thanks Dan, I feel I genuinely have everything I need and can see no point in accumulating more"stuff" and filling my small house with things I don't need for the sake of acquisitiveness and I would rather spend the money on keeping the equipment I use regularly professionally serviced when necessary.

 

[Dan Fromm]

So far so good, Ben, but you really shouldn't impute motives to strangers or impugn their preferences. We're not all like you. Different constraints, different goals, different preferences.

 

[benjiboy]

So far so good, Ben, but you really shouldn't impute motives to strangers or impugn their preferences. We're not all like you. Different constraints, different goals, different preferences.

That's true Dan, people aren't all like me, I'm more interested in photographs than the equipment which is just a means to an end that anyone with money can buy, I don't consider it an end in itself.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

That's true Dan, people aren't all like me, I'm more interested in photographs than the equipment which is just a means to an end that anyone with money can buy, I don't consider it an end in itself.

You radical non-consumerist, you! How dare you escape the clutches of Madison Avenue and the nattering class?

 

[benjiboy]

You radical non-consumerist, you! How dare you escape the clutches of Madison Avenue and the nattering class?

There's an old saying in photography Paul "If you want to impress me with your photography don't show me your cameras, show me your pictures".

 

[MartinCrabtree]

If I made photographs to impress anyone I'd be in trouble.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

good lens is good lens , it saves you from doing countless things in darkroom , its like you have a ferrari , you can go other point earlier and with fun and proud , there is no bad logic behind this.