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              April 25, 2012
              Amy Hobbs

              [Gear] Vintage Nikon Fisheye Lens on Sale for $160,000

              Are you in the market for a fisheye? This one will only set you back $160,000. Nikon created this extreme wide angle lens back in 1970, for the Photokina trade show. It’s the Nikkor 6mm f/2.8, and it has a 220º field of view. The lens weighs about 11 pounds, with a minimum focusing distance of 25cm. When it was first introduced, it was the widest lens available. They only made a few hundred of them, and it took  Gray’s of Westmister six months to track one down. Kinda makes spending $1,600 on a lens seem like a great deal, right?

              macro 01 [Gear] Vintage Nikon Fisheye Lens on Sale for $160,000

              macro 02 [Gear] Vintage Nikon Fisheye Lens on Sale for $160,000

              Here are a couple of sample images:

              fisheye 6mm 620x352 [Gear] Vintage Nikon Fisheye Lens on Sale for $160,000

              Blankenese 620x173 [Gear] Vintage Nikon Fisheye Lens on Sale for $160,000

              Via: HUH and SLR Lounge

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              From Amy Hobbs:

              Thank you so much for reading! You can find me on Facebook or my website. Have a lovely day.

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              • http://www.distrasdesigns.com Mike Distras

                Add in the read more link ;)

                It broke the homepage!

              • http://www.distrasdesigns.com Mike Distras

                Awesome article though! :)

              • amyhobbs

                 Yeah, I guess accidentally published it before I was finished!   Thanks!

              • http://www.michaelkormos.com/ Michael Kormos

                Talk about being able to see behind!  

                Not sure about the Photokina reference, but according to this source… “Nikon’s 6mm fisheye lens was initially designed for an expedition to Antarctica. It featured a 220-degree field of view, designed to capture the entire sky and surrounding ground when pointed straight up.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens#Focal_length

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001062702823 James Gurdine

                would be interesting capturing video with that lens.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joey-Duncan/1111692326 Joey Duncan

                220 degrees!!!!! holy fisheye batman!

              • http://twitter.com/mikenewton mikenewton

                How long before I can buy an adapter for my iphone? (my attempt at sarcasm)

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Drew-Talbot/100000960274741 Drew Talbot

                Whale eye.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504377194 Rob Bannister

                There is one here for $12000 
                http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1100606/0?keyword=6mm#10500612 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Sutherland/712666700 Alex Sutherland

                its going for £1300 here http://www.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/433032/nikon-8mm-f28-fisheye-nikkor-1970-1997

              • P3NGYJ03

                 That’s an f/5.6 Lens – Still expensive and Fisheye, but not the same as this one being shown :)

              • Jon Dize aka DIZEMAN

                That one is an 8mm fisheye Alex.

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