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Nice lens for sale

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:17 pm

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/04/23/the-camera-bag-moby-dick-sized-nikon-6mm-f-2.8-fisheye-lens-on-sale-for-160
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Nice lens for sale

Postby tasadam on Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:30 pm

Would be an interesting lens cap!
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby aim54x on Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:52 pm

I want it...shame I dont have that sort of money lying around
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby biggerry on Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:24 pm

*yawn*

show me some pictures from said 6mm lens....
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby surenj on Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:27 pm

What's the filter size?
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Reschsmooth on Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:30 pm

Ahh, the venerable self portrait lens.

Nice F3 as well.
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby ATJ on Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:48 pm

I wonder if I can get a dome port for it (so I can take it underwater).
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:55 pm

biggerry wrote:*yawn*

show me some pictures from said 6mm lens....



Yawn over this young Gerry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkiboo/5877953600/in/photostream/
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby biggerry on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:19 pm

sirhc55 wrote:
biggerry wrote:*yawn*

show me some pictures from said 6mm lens....



Yawn over this young Gerry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkiboo/5877953600/in/photostream/


still yawning...its got funny black borders.. i mean gee you pay 160k new and you get that kinda quality.. :rotfl2:
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:27 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Yawn over this young Gerry


Yawn....

... taken with one of my early digital cameras - the Coolpix 995 + FC-E8 0.21x Fisheye Converter Lens (184 degree FOV) about ten years ago

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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:34 pm

You’re a hard one to please Gerry :up: :D
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby surenj on Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:06 pm

Terrible terrible vignetting from the look of it...
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:37 pm

surenj wrote:Terrible terrible vignetting from the look of it...
 LOL - yes well a circular fisheye will do that for you. You could PP them to try and make them rectilinear but you'll get massive distortion and quality loss from the stretching.

On my Coolpix you could tell it you wanted a rectilinear image and it would essentially automatically zoom to the point where you end up with a full frame.
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby gstark on Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:21 am

surenj wrote:What's the filter size?


Probably 39mm.

Seriously.

Many Nikon lenses include an internal 39mm filter within the body's light path as a part of the optical path for the glass. There's a removable holder into which the filter is mounted. You extract the holder and place a replacement filter into the light path, and you always ensure that there's a filter of some sort within the light path.
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Steffen on Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:04 am

surenj wrote:Terrible terrible vignetting from the look of it...


And I detect some considerable geometric distortion.

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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Steffen on Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:22 am

It's gotta be hard to stay out of the frame with this one. As they say, in Soviet Russia the picture takes you!

Fascinating piece of gear… Here's a rear view:

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It also shows the filter wheel with five built-in filters.

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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Murray Foote on Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:22 pm

I think they must be tripod mounts on the back of the lens. Not too many lenses have that.
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Re: Nice lens for sale

Postby Murray Foote on Tue May 01, 2012 12:40 am

As far as lenses go, though, it's only a tiddler compared to this one for a 3.2 gigapixel camera. Filter size two or three metres.
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