What? No one bought this bargain?

[gr82bart]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180294096815

Regards, Art.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Bah, you know the mirror lenses they have bad bokeh, so who wants to bother, eh?

 

[fingel]

Can I get it in Nikon mount?

 

[Gatsby1923]

Look it is even on a naval gun carriage! That is the battleship gun of lenses....

 

[TheDreadPirateRobins]

It won't fit in my carry-on.

 

[Perry Way]

I was particular tickled by this question and answer

Q: Are you able to supply this with a 2x converter? A 1.4 will also do the job nicely. Sep-28-08

A: Well unless you want to loose a stop or so & need to check the tread wear on Neil Armstrong's lunar footprints I can supply a 2x converter - no problem! That said & in all seriousness most non full frame sensor DSLR's will give you that added reach - without further optics or light loss. Any cine or video equipment will also naturally increase the focal length (35mm Cine cameras excepted). This lens is a tourist attraction in itself & could also be marketed in that direction when fully rigged.

 

[Ralph Javins]

44,000 views of the auction page. That may be a record for e-Bay, at least for photographic gear.

 

[nsouto]

hmmmm.....
the guy is a cameraman and cinematographer and his services are available for hire,
and he just got 44000 views of his add.

beat that, for the cost of an ebay listing!

 

[sun of sand]

GPS Portrait Studio

 

[Zach in Israel]

Meade or Celestron will sell you a telescope with similar properties for about the same amount. Add $20 for a T-ring

 

[cdholden]

I wanted to buy it, but it didn't including a focusing rail or reversing ring for macro shots.

 

[manfromh]

Its the perfect travel lens. I can take picture of the Colosseum without leaving home (or going to Italy).

 

[jgcull]

>>>Can I get it in Nikon mount?<<<

That would make it work for me... if I can shoot handheld. I don't like using a tripod. I should be good though because I pump iron most mornings - a 1lb weigh in each hand.

 

[Colin Corneau]

All that glass, just to shoot onto a tiny 24mm x 36mm film surface....

 

[reellis67]

Methinks someone is trying to compensate for something...

- Randy

 

[Jeff Kubach]

What about the filters for this lense?

Jeff

 

[Mick Fagan]

This quite large lens was obviously manufactured for some interesting picture taking. I would suggest that these kinds of things are made more frequently than we are aware.

My late father in-law was a photographer for the German army during the last world war. About 20 years ago he decided to show me literally full shoeboxes of photographs from the war and associated stuff.

Possibly the most interesting series of pictures was of a camera that was commissioned by the authorities in the late thirties. I know that my father in-law was quite proud of the efforts and results that came from using the monster camera shown in the pictures.

The camera was designed to take pictures of the Maginot line along the western German border with various countries. Most of the photos were taken from high points along the Siegfried line in Germany. I saw some of the pictures and was amazed at the clarity of the contact prints. The pictures were of towns, fortifications and other interesting points that were of varying distances away from them. Most of the distance points they were photographing, were between 18 to 20 kilometres away.

He had a couple of photographs of the camera itself. It was a wooden camera and ones first impression was that it was a coffin, albeit, a long narrow coffin. It took 6 strong men to carry; I saw a picture of them doing this. He wasn’t too sure of the optical length of the camera, but he assured me of two things. One, it was a telephoto design; two, the lens was manufactured by Jena, or manufactured in Jena.

The film it used was 200mm wide (or about that) aerographic roll film. He had a couple of rolls down in the cellar, which I looked at, and felt, very thick film base. The film was Agfa and apparently it incorporated an extended red sensitivity.

I think that future generations may ponder the camera technology used from outer space in the various satellites, just like we are doing today.

Mick.

 

[Poohblah]

the extra red sensitivity needed for aerial/distance photography for reducing the contrast-stealing effects of the atmosphere.

 

[Anscojohn]

All that glass, just to shoot onto a tiny 24mm x 36mm film surface....

*******I'm going to pass. It won't fit on my Argoflex.

 

[mhcfires]

There might be some birders who would be interested.

 

[Samuel Hotton]

I met a man in Suffolk England that used a huge lens to photograph the German activities on the French coast from Folkestone England 26ish miles away during the war. He needed the 300 feet altitude of the cliff at Folkestone to see over the horizon 26 miles away. The lens was about 6 feet long with a 10" diameter front element supported by two Gandolfi tripods. He said he could resolve a bicycle spoke at a mile and 1 inch at two miles.
Sam H.