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Marijn Bezuijen said:
arachnophilia said:
here's another lens i think would be fun if i had a spare thousand
dollars laying around:

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/special/120medical.htm
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Given that your name is arachophilia, it is very appropriate that you
want this lens. I own one, with the 2x attachment and an AC power
supply. I find it is one of the easiest ways to do handheld Macro
photography around the house and it is impressively sharp at most
magnifications.

If you manage to find one that has a working DC power supply, it
would be excellent outside the house as well. Note that I paid well
below $1000 for mine and have seen more go for less than that.
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I have the 120 medical, burned out the flash tube, Nikon didn't have any replacements, sent it back unfixable. It worked fine on a Fuji S1 and S2 but doesn't meter right on a D200 so I can't use it on my current cameras. I also think my Tamron 90 f2.5 and my 105 AFD are sharper. So it sits in a closet.

Tom
 
Kilfitt lenses are nice, for 1950s era lenses, I have a 400 f5.6 which weighs a ton, and a 40 f2.5 macro which should be nice on APS but it has a fixed Canon FD mount, vignettes on 35mm, but since it is a manual lens was thinking of having it adapted to Nikon. This company would sell its new lenses with a glass plate of a res chart taken with the lens you buy. I have it for the 400 somewhere.

Their 90mm f2.8 macro was a great lens for its time, Zoomars were ahead of their time but very soft.

Tom
 
My personal favorite exotic Nikkor.



Or if you like long...1200-1700mm



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And the Sigma Zoom Omega 350-1200 f11...

Which I've seen for sale in the UK for £2,000ish.

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genotypewriter said:
There isn't a single discussion that mentions f/0.7 that doesn't
mention NASA and Kubrik. And this happens everywhere... over and over
and over and over and overrrrrrrrrrrrrr again! :(
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If you are bored, please feel free to bring something new and exotic to the table.
 
This is the type of thread that keeps me coming back to this forum.

Keep them coming!
 
Nick Wong said:
FYI, Nikon Canada Mississauga office has this lens sitting behind the
service department counter. It always catches my eyes.

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Thats really cool, i'd love this lens. One sold at Christies in 2007 for £6,600.
 
RKGoth said:
Bob GB said:
People seem to be attracted by exotic lenses for various reasons.
Some people believe lenses of certain brands are better than other
lenses. Whatever the opinions are, one could enjoy some rare lenses
produced through the history of photography.
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I don't know why I'm interested, since I spend most of my time
complaining that I can't find subjects/time/motivation, but I really,
really want a 135 f2 DC. Which is a little exotic. Not hugely so...

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I really like the output from the DC, but I think the output from the Minolta (Sony) 135 f2.8[4.5] STF is better - there is something magical about its painting of the de-focused area. If only there was a way of attaching it to a D3.

http://www.dyxum.com/columns/articles/lenses/SAL-135F28/Sony-AF-135-STF-SAL-135F28_review.asp
 
The Hubble Space Telescope has possible one of the most spectacular lenses of all time. The main lens has an aperture of 2.4 m and focal length of 57.6 m. Launched into orbit in April 1990; it has now been close to 19 years in service. Although many ground based telescopes have bigger lenses, the one in the Hubble Space Telescope stand out for many reasons.

When launched it was soon clear something was wrong with the lens. The main mirror had been polished with an error caused by an incorrect assembled measuring device used by Perkin-Elmer under the process.

Three years later, this error was corrected by inserting a corrective lens element with the opposite "failure" to that of the main mirror. To everyone's delight Hubble started producing stunningly sharp images, meeting the original goals for sharpness.



More about the Hubble Space Telescope:
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/
 
Tom Monego said:
I have the 120 medical, burned out the flash tube, Nikon didn't have
any replacements, sent it back unfixable. It worked fine on a Fuji S1
and S2 but doesn't meter right on a D200 so I can't use it on my
current cameras. I also think my Tamron 90 f2.5 and my 105 AFD are
sharper. So it sits in a closet.
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i'd say you could send it to me, but... i kinda really want with a working flash tube.

why doesn't it meter right with the d200? i've heard that all metering is taken care of by the flash/gn system, or if it's not on, it works via stop-down metering? that webpage i linked is really the only info i could find on the lens in any detail. what's it like using it?
 
genotypewriter said:
There isn't a single discussion that mentions f/0.7 that doesn't
mention NASA and Kubrik. And this happens everywhere... over and over
and over and over and overrrrrrrrrrrrrr again! :(
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because there's two things it's known really well for: going to the moon, and filming barry lyndon by candlelight. why should we not mention the famous history?
 
Bob GB said:
People seem to be attracted by exotic lenses for various reasons.
Some people believe lenses of certain brands are better than other
lenses. Whatever the opinions are, one could enjoy some rare lenses
produced through the history of photography.

Here is one of them; the Zeiss 50 mm f/0.7.

50mm f/0.7 project completed with 10 copies of the lens made, 6 sold
to NASA, 1 kept by Zeiss. Nasa used them in the Apollo flights to
shoot the back side of the Moon.
Other 3 lenses were bought by Stanley Kubrick who made a movie with
scenes lit only by candlelight with it (Barry Lyndon)

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One of these 90mm f1.0 Leica's showed up on Ebay about six months ago. $23,000 or so. Made for them by Elcan for the U.S. Navy.

 
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