Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html