Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Expensive glass.....
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:07:28 -0500
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNGEEAHPAA.red735i@earthlink.net>

Professional movie camera lenses by mfgrs. like Carl Zeiss go for $5,000 and
up for the primes.  Thats for 16mm.  Zoom lenses for broadcast video cameras
were about $12-17K last time I looked.

If you need a particular tool in your line of work you'll pay!

Mike D

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From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 6:17 PM
Subject: [Leica] Expensive glass.....


> Mentioning the new JSK 15mm lens for $5K got me to think about other
> extraordinarily expensive glass that I have run accross...in person, if
not
> in ownership......
>
> The Zeiss Mirotar, 1000 mm , F-something fast, that I was told was over
$5K
> in the 70's
> The enlarging lens that Rodenstock promised to make for a very successful
> 8x10 shooter.... $55K  ( they reneged on the deal once the bosses got
> involved).. this was 1999 .....
> 24mm Hasselblad Fisheye lens that was reportedly made for a specific
> industrial application... I think it was a Zeiss design..... was over $10K
> in the 90's
> The Nikon 6mm F2.8 Fisheye, whose price I never did see, but got to handle
> one a long time ago....
>
> The problem with low production is that you can never get the price
down...
> and the cost usually exceeds the selling price.  Companies do this to
create
> PR or just plain brag about their capabilities.....   they do not do it
for
> the shooters....
>
> The final comment.... remember that the US government etc. have all kinds
of
> weird stuff made, and cost is no object..... ELCAN lenses are usually the
> prime examples....
>
> Contrast this with the Arsat 30mm FIsheye lens, a most likely copy of a
> Zeiss design, for 2 1/4 Kievs and old Hassy bodies that sells for $150-200
> New, today......   Amazing what a lack of cash will do for prices.......!
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
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