[Leica] $246,000 leica lens

[Frank Filippone]

If I remember correctly, Photo Arsenal bought out the Leica Museum's unwanted items....

.How much was the Zeiss lens that the Sheik (?) had made for him to take pictures of wildlife?

1700 mm Sonnar for Hasselblad was over $100K (reported weight was 564 pounds) and is a regular catalog item
 1600 F5.6 for Leicaflex  was over $2M  (Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Quatar)

Zeiss obviously does not know how to price for the market......

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

in other news, there is a quarter million dollar leica lens on eBay right now:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leitz-Canada-f-Leica-R-5-600-mm-Apo-Telyt-Prototype-Unicum-lens-/371221653576?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item566e88e848 

kc