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Photoshoped A7 on the Leica R 5/600 mm lens.
If you have plenty of money to waste on lenses well..I have good news for you. A very rare Leica R 5/600mm is now for sale for [shoplink 32787 ebay]$229.000 on eBay Austria (worldwide shipment)[/shoplink]. And above you can see a “photoshopped A7” on it. Makes you feel like a hero or not? 🙂
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Apparently it is a protptype, so it might even be the only copy ever made, and is APO as well
or maybe all mirror lenses are apochromatic, since you have a mirror and not lenses
The front piece of glass usually has a “corrector” function, thus it isn’t completely flat, so some chromatic aberration may occur–but it should be pretty small.
Unfortunately, mirror lenses intrinsically have some resolution problems that make them less than optimal for photography. I just wish they didn’t–would love to have a lightweight long-telephoto lens!
Geez, Euros have to pay 20% VAT on top. Ouch…
The horrid VAT lol
I’m not sure if what they’re doing is against eBay policy, but the same lens is listed twice. eBay item 371246300525 is USD 229,999 (+ VAT for EU buyers), and eBay item 371246298046 is EUR 200,000 (with no mention of VAT). The lens is cheaper for everyone if bought from the EUR-denominated listing. Cheaper shipping too.
This is a one of a kind proyotype and previosly sold for $70,000.
They made 2 of the 1600mm version which sold for over $2,000,00.
so why does it have a LAEA adapter ?
For phase detection tracking of eye floaters.
It’s not an LAEA adapter, it’s a specially made adapter which makes this lens AF.
$229,999.00 not $229. Misleading article
Admin is European. 😉
Corrected! Right I am European and we use the “.” and not the “,”.
haha! So funny that someone thinks it’s only 229 and not 229000..Use your brain, guys!
I’m european too, that’s strange. How would you write 999,999.95? I’m not flaming I am curious
In English it’s written like that, but many other languages (like my native Swedish) would write that in this way: 999 999,95. We use a decimal comma instead of a decimal point,
But ending my last sentence with a comma was a mistake! 😉
Thank you. I had no idea about that, cool
Is there a Hubble mount to E-mount adapter? It is 57600mm focal length and only slightly more expensive than this stupidity. With crop factor it is almost 90000mm on NEX-3.
Hubble is the scope with interchangeable cameras, not the reverse!
Had it, wasn’t impressed. Too soft wide open. Shipped that POS back to B&H.
…kidding aside, I find it peculiar that you pay just $40 to ship it, worldwide 🙂
I can’t find any example photos? Wtf.
Should I buy a car and a 50mm and get real close or buy this instead? This looks like a witches broomstick
pretty sure that any actual 600mm f4 will have better quality
What would macro shots look like with this thing reverse mounted on my A9?
Totally black.
Good enough to put on my backup body for some quick casual shots.
That actually exists. lol.
huge donut bokeh!
I have it. Meh- it doesn’t say zeiss on the side so it just sits on my shelf.
I don’t leica big lenses.
Just 600mm?
At this size they could have made it a normal lens, not a mirror lens.
Buy the superb Canon 600/4 or the 800/5.6 for roughly 11k€ with a Metabones MK4 and take the rest of the money to make a 180 days 5* world journey and take photos of it. 🙂
Would you really cripple those fantastic lenses with a metabone? You made me cringe.
There are people adapting an Otus, othere have been adapting a Leica Noctilux onto a Nex7. If they have the money and fun with – we are living in free countries.
There is nothing wrong with the Metabones adapter if attempting to connect Canon EF to your A7 series?!?
But nearby, the ones wanting mor MP than a 5D3 edlivers don’t necessarily need to use these lenses on an A7R anymore – they can go for the 5Ds. 🙂
There are also people jumping down the window, it’s a free country.
Writing such contextless crap is an argument against freedom of speech…
$299? Most Sony lenses are more expensive than that. I don’t see how this is the most expensive….
229,000? how much successful fee ebay will eat..jeez
eBay and Paypal fees will be $27,480.
That’s wrong. I just checked on an ebay fee calculator and the final value fee is $250, paypal fee is $8970. But I’m sure you could arrange an alternate method of payment given the sum of money involved.
eBay fees are 10% and paypal fees are 2%. Get with the times.
10% with no cap?
nope ..
the greed is strong in ebay 😛
Wrong again, it’s capped, maybe you should learn how to read
eBay are the master jews. They don’t cap anything. Good goyim!
Get a life guys!
That is rare.
I just hope it’s a genuine leica lens and not an elaborate scam
I’d be inclined to buy a Fotodiox tough e-mount for it, as it looks like it has already bent the mount on this A7…
They do. I use a Celestron Astromaster with my A7 🙂
I’d be interested; do you use that just for astrophotography, or for sports and wildlife too? If so, what is the relative speed and do you have the option for aperture adjustment (sorry, I know absolutely nothing about telescopes!)
I use it to take pictures of buildings far away in my city. But to be honest it’s not very sharp, and it is very slow (Haven’t calculated the f-number, but i would guess about f16 or something, i can’t change aperture).
I did it mostly because i can, not because i’ts a good lens 😛
Fair enough, although a little digging shows that range to be around the £150-200 range, so very cheap in comparison to an average camera lens.
I was wondering more about something like the Celestron CPC1100, which comes in around £2500 (including mount and computer tracking!). How much would it take to get a monster like that to perform better than a 500mm f4, for example? They’d have £7500 to play with!
Will the Leica lens worth 80 times the price of the sigma DG APO OS HSMM 500 mm F/4,5 ?
i m a green so i only own the Sigma 150-500 mm for astrophotography
Waw, the long awaited new kitlens for the new A7000 !!!
Or you buy the adapter kit for your smartphone 🙂
Wouldn’t want to be a photojournalist walking around in a war zone with that!
They will shoot you regardless
Slow news day?
… with the wrong adapter … LOL
It’s the new LE(ICA)-EA4 adapter 🙂
let me just get my wallet …do you have change from 229100 ??? i dont have quarters
This lens and a Sony mirrorless camera would still produce only 11 bit + 7 color depth.
Much more than any crappy Canon sensor up to date LOL.
Are you sure? Are you an expert photographer?
Are you an payed by Canon for trolling or do you work for free? Either way, Canon sensors s.u.c.k at DR and color fidelity!
Sure, why not… But that’s not the reason why your pics suck, anyway.
Any picture taken by a Canon sensor sucks… You know, all the banding in the shadows, all the nasty color noise, the low DR and bad colors. 😉
The only thing that sucks more is your trolling but unfortunately Canon spends money were it shod not.