Hi, this site shows a Carl Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens for a 35mm movie camera, bought by Stanley Kubrick so he could shoot 'Barry Lyndon' in candlelight alone: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
I remember a documentary recently in which the price was mentioned, but I don't remember the price itself. There were a lot of 0s in it though. I think he bought it out of his own personal money so he could always have it available when needed. Sort of reminds me of Shel :o) --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, December 17, 2001, 1:06:30 PM, you wrote: > Has there ever been anything faster? How many pretty pennies do > you think it might fetch? > Steve Larson > Redondo Beach, California > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paris, Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:39 AM > Subject: RE: 50mm/f1.2 >> Yeah the f/0.95. Impressive piece of glass to look at. Performance was > not >> great but, at the time, there was nothing faster. It looked mighty good on >> the Canon 7s. I guess that body and lens combo would fetch a pretty penny >> today. >> >> Len >> --- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Norman Baugher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 5:54 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: 50mm/f1.2 >> >> >> Speaking of fast 50's, the shop around the corner from my office has one > of >> those C**** 0.9 50mm lenses. That thing is HUGE, about the size of my 45mm >> 6x7 - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
