Mirrorless camera owners that want to own the best of all fisheye lens can be happy! Finally they can find one of the rarest and the absolute best lenses they can get, the Nikon 6mm f/2.8 Nikkor AI Fisheye Lens! Dealsrunner.com spotted one very rare copy for sale now on . From the pictures on the auction site you don’t see how big this lens is. That’s why I included the video on top. Watch it…it’s a massive lens! Can you imagine that one on a Panasonic GF camera? LOL!
P.S.: Confess it, you never thought a fisheye lens could be that expensive 😉
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To transport this lens it is best if you have a 13,5m long Lamborghini for $ 13.500.000
well the cool thing is that it has 220° angle of view! So to use it on a mft would a little wasteful. but in combination with the upcoming ff-nex it’ll still look silly enough I think 🙂
it’s a SLR lens. Mirrorless version would be much much smaller.
and, as simon have said, it’s wasteful on a mft
That’s a whale eye!
Kaiju-eye 😀
Would like to see an example picture.
when you watch this video on youtube , the following video in the list shows video and photo shooting with that lens
I tested this lens on a RED Epic to shoot full dome footage. It’s optical quality is not even close to the current Sigma 4.5mm or 8mm in terms of edge sharpness and chromatic aberration.
Thanks for alerting me to this!
I have one of these already, of course, but now I’m toying with snatching this up to be my backup!
It’s the eye of Sauron !
Imagine Frodo using this lens.. hahahaha
It is now reduced to 75.000$. And it seems that you can still buy it for ~27.000$ new, if you can wait 9 months.
When previous one was sold year or so ago, the actual users of the lens said that you can find it used for $10-20K. You just have to ask. Some even offered to sell their own one. That is how it is with specialized equipment. But the eBay-ers in this case are after street cred, nothing else.
i doubt you’ll be able to buy one of these lenses. Only a handful of those were actually produced. Bellamby once reported how hard it was to get his hands on one of those. It’s even rarer than the hexanon 60 f1.2
I might consider it when price drops down to $79.
But even at that time, I will strongly consider more modern design from Sigma
Who the heck thinks this is the “best” fisheye lens? Biggest perhaps, but best?
I’ll go along with “most expensive”, but why “best”?
This is a buckler , isn’t it? LOL
I spy with my little eye…
Keep in mind the first priority of this lens design was not actually not photography, but for making measurements inside cramped spaces in manufacturing industries. One usage was to automatically check measurements inside cars (the lens was mounted on some sort of primitive robotic arm which could be inserted for a brief moment into cars during manufacturing).
As a photographic lens, the image quality is not that exciting.
The need for extreme optical designs like these all but disappeared with the introduction of digital sensors when it became easier and more efficient to shoot a series of images of whatever you want to measure and then stitch them together.
But it is a cool lens for sure 🙂