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p.1 #1 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

That I have $80,000.00'ish dollars in my hand..... Would it be possible to even find one of these somewhere

!!?

by the way... for the few who may not know what this is....
Nikon 1200-1700mm f/5.6~f/8 ED

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p.1 #2 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

I'm waiting for a DX version with VR.

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p.1 #3 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

... and if it were also f/1.4 AF-S that would be a big PLUS!!!

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p.1 #4 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

...and if they don't produce it soon, I'm switching to Canon!

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p.1 #5 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

ME TOO!!! ROTFL

Seriously... Do you think there are any of these out there ANYWHERE for sale??

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p.1 #6 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

mlife wrote:
ME TOO!!! ROTFL

Seriously... Do you think there are any of these out there ANYWHERE for sale??

They are made to order.

So just talk to Nikon and they'll make you one. Or maybe if you get lucky and find one at a company liquidation sale (because that's mostly who bought it, corporations/government agencies) you could snag one.

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p.1 #7 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

Does it come with the octapod required to support it?

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p.1 #8 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

That's not a lens! It's a rocket booster from a NASA prototype.

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p.1 #9 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

David R wrote:
Does it come with the octapod required to support it?

according to the spec's, it weighs like 36lb's!!!...... as far as the Ocapod, "NO".... it comes with a staff of 4 Nikon employees to carry it any where you want to go.... and they hold it up for you too!!

"andylaiphoto".... .... "Prototype rocket booster"..... Sorry.... that's incorrect.... you must have read the article wrong.... it said they were trying to DEVELOP a prototype rocket booster to lift it out of the case for you!!!

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p.1 #10 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

You don't have one of these

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p.1 #11 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

I have never seen one for sale. It's not even in the Nikkor lens catalogue, not the one I have anyway. I do remember talking to a retailer whom suggested if I had the cash they could order one?

Have you seen it next to a 600mm f4? The thing is massive but I tell you what, if you donate one to me I promise to carry it around as my resident lens!!

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p.1 #12 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

I'm not buying it unless it is AF-S, come one get with it Nikon :-)

Andrew

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p.1 #13 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

MikeLandry wrote:
I'm waiting for a DX version with VR.

but if you buy a DX lense, what will happen if nikon finally goes full frame

hahahaha

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p.1 #14 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

I used to manage a camera shop in Oz and what is available 'special order' from Nikon is quite bewildering.
There are also specialist lense makers that work for the film industry/NASA/documentory makers ect that can built some very cool crap.
I've seen a lense for shooting insects in low light that has 2 seperate focus plains, ie one focus point at say 4" and one at 12" at f1.4 so you get the army of ants looking very interesting.
Also, one of NASA's craft had a 2000mm lense on board.
And then there was the 1000mm solid catadioptic lense that was availible in the 80's.
It is just so boring when you look at a catalog, ring the maker and see what they can do (if money is no object) it's just a tube with ground glass in it after all.
Except for the fluid filled lenses, but thats a whole differant story.
Gav

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p.1 #15 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

Qranc wrote:
I have never seen one for sale. It's not even in the Nikkor lens catalogue, not the one I have anyway. I do remember talking to a retailer whom suggested if I had the cash they could order one?

From what I understand, the last of these were produced in 1992

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p.1 #16 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

Spydweb wrote:
You don't have one of these

Right??!! heck... Id pay just to put this thing on my D2x and capture 5 frames with it!!!! just for S&G's

Id venture to guess VERY few people have ever even seen one much less owned it!! lol

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p.1 #17 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

Qranc wrote:
Have you seen it next to a 600mm f4? The thing is massive but I tell you what, if you donate one to me I promise to carry it around as my resident lens!!

ITS MASSIVE NEXT TO EVERYTHING!!!!

YUP!! even DWARFS the 1000mm REFLEX f/11

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p.1 #18 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

What is that totally mad fisheye on the bottom right

Daniel.

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p.1 #19 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

as that lens is, I think I'd rather have a 300/2.0 if someone else was paying for it.

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p.1 #20 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

SnaggS wrote:
What is that totally mad fisheye on the bottom right

Daniel.

Not good for DSLR.

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Sep 07, 2005 at 02:16 AM

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p.1 #21 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

SnaggS wrote:
What is that totally mad fisheye on the bottom right

Daniel.

That is the old school 6mm Fisheye..... it is MF and produces a round image with black edges... TRUE 180 degree FOV!! (maybe it was 8mm?? cant remember)....

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p.1 #22 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

mlife wrote:
SnaggS wrote:
What is that totally mad fisheye on the bottom right

Daniel.

That is the old school 6mm Fisheye..... it is MF and produces a round image with black edges... TRUE 180 degree FOV!! (maybe it was 8mm?? cant remember)....

No, it's definitely the 6mm, the 8mm is behind it in that shot.

That picture seems to be missing the 300mm f/2.

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p.1 #23 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

Yep, it's a 6mm. I used one in the early 80's to do some very early skateboard stuff on the first backyard ramps.
Only problem was it was impossible to use without getting in the shot as well (full 180 coverage) and a DOF of 0 to infinity.
Gav

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p.1 #24 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

gavin wrote:
I used to manage a camera shop in Oz and what is available 'special order' from Nikon is quite bewildering.
There are also specialist lense makers that work for the film industry/NASA/documentory makers ect that can built some very cool crap.
I've seen a lense for shooting insects in low light that has 2 seperate focus plains, ie one focus point at say 4" and one at 12" at f1.4 so you get the army of ants looking very interesting.
Also, one of NASA's craft had a 2000mm lense on board.
And then there was the 1000mm solid catadioptic lense that was availible in the 80's.
It is just so boring when you look at a catalog, ring the maker and see what they can do (if money is no object) it's just a tube with ground glass in it after all.
Except for the fluid filled lenses, but thats a whole differant story.
Gav

Yup, Nikon is an industrial optics company, and make far more stuff than we see as consumer photogs. But they can cook up all sorts of stuff in their mad science labrotories with bunsen burners and schematics.

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p.1 #25 · Let's PRETEND for a second....

how big is the front element on that thing?

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