photo credit: Tony Hurst
Excerpt from the article on the Amateur Photographer website:
A rare £100,000 Nikon fisheye lens, said to be able to ‘see behind itself’ – and dwarfing any camera it is attached to – has gone on sale in London.
The Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 was credited as the world’s most extreme wideangle lens to cover the 24x36mm image area when it was unveiled at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany in 1970.
It weighs a whopping 5.2kg, is 171mm long and has a diameter of 236mm.
‘We came across it around seven weeks ago,’ said Gray Levett, co-founder of Nikon dealer Grays of Westminster who told AP that he found the gem on a trip overseas.
Believed to be one of only a few hundred produced, it was principally designed for scientific and industrial applications and special effects when shooting portraits and architectural shots, for example.
The 12-elements-in-9-goups optic delivers a picture angle of 220º.
photo credit: Tony Hurst
so, surely you’ve taken a picture or two with this lens. let’s see one!
See: http://blog.graysofwestminster.co.uk/2012/04/26/grays-of-westminster-through-the-eyes-of-the-6mm-f2-8-fisheye-nikkor-lens/
Hello,
Is there any picture visible somewhere on the web taken with this strange thing ? ;o)
Or the seller has never tried it thinking about any unique usage ? ^_^
Anyway, I’m happy to not to have to clean its glass at each use.
Antoine
🙂 See http://blog.graysofwestminster.co.uk/2012/04/26/grays-of-westminster-through-the-eyes-of-the-6mm-f2-8-fisheye-nikkor-lens/
http://www.nikonweb.com/fisheye/fisheye_6mm.jpg
[…] has always been ahead of the times. The OP Fisheye-NIKKOR 10mm f/5.6 fisheye lens for SLR cameras, released in 1968, was the world’s first lens to incorporate aspherical lens […]
If Gray’s doesn’t have it, it’s not worth having.
Wow thanks Robert!