Nikon Fisheye

[cliveh]

Check out this Nikon lens from the latest westlicht auction.

http://www.westlicht-auction.com/in...ail&utm_term=0_e1a5b303fa-a3aed35f98-45749849

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Just the home page of the auction site comes up for me. Is it that huge one that looks like half a fish bowl? ;-)

Hmmm, I found it, this one right?

(In tried what I thought was the link here but got the home page again...)

Perhaps the image of the lens? This one?

 

[AgX]

Richard, it is mentioned on their homepage, but there also is a detailed page:

http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=20141215_1156&inO=289

6.2mm/5.6 230° (1964)


Craziness...

I mean, what does its "successor" from 1969, the 6mm/5.6 220° cost?
Or the huge 6mm/2.8 220° ?

 

[StephenT]

Yes, those are very rare and very pricey. I'll sell my Pentax 67 fisheye for less if anyone can't live without it!

 

[Dan Fromm]

At least two people wanted it very badly.

 

[summicron1]

156,000 euros? someone wants a pretty much useless lens pretty badly.

 

[bdial]

Useless?
Not many lenses will let you take pictures of your feet with the camera pointed straight ahead.
Not that I've ever had a reason to do that...

It's an impressive piece of glass, even if it isn't very practical.

 

[ic-racer]

That one, or one like it, comes to the surface every few years. I guess that is what one does with those lenses...try to sell it to the next guy for wads of cash.

 

[mweintraub]

Wait, how many are there!?!?!

http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html#Fisheye

3 made? Photosynthesis needs updating.

http://akiroom.com/redbook-e/kenkyukai08/kenkyukai200802.html

 

[Sirius Glass]

Way too limited use for me. I can find other lenses to buy that I would use a great deal more.

 

[benjiboy]

It''s about as much use for practical everyday photography as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest .

 

[AgX]

There were times fisheyes were quite popular and you would find respective photographs in any photo magazine.

Though the models hinted at here were even special in that niche.

 

[fotch]

I really enjoy mine, and used it in an ad campaign and made money way beyond its cost (purchase used).

 

[Dan Fromm]

Folks, you can't begin to imagine how sour those grapes that I can't pick are.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Folks, you can't begin to imagine how sour those grapes that I can't pick are.

I can afford the fisheye lens. In fact last month I passed up not one but two good opportunities to buy a fisheye lens, but I since I have the SWC, the WideLux and a 20mm to 35mm Nikon zoom lens I just can't see getting enough use for me. YMMV Besides I still have to convince myself that I did the right thing by buying a 500mm Hasselblad lens last month.

I have never made a bad decision in my life. It is just that some of them were sub optimal.

 

[benjiboy]

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[Poisson Du Jour]

Funny how this thread happened along while I was eyeballing this (rather costly) fishy fiend...
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PENTAX-6...351088?hash=item3abd51b270:g:5PcAAOSwVL1V~sBh