The most pricy LF lens

[Bruce Watson]

Per Rolyn Optics' 1982 Boyer price list, the 1500/12.5 Apo Saphir sold for $12,452...

Holy cow! In 1982 I bought a car for $12k IIRC. A mazda RX-7. Great fun. But that was before I got into LF. Costs even more, but even more fun

[Renato Tonelli]

Holy cow is right! Who made the Apo Saphir (and what was it made of)? I had never heard of it until now.

[Dan Fromm]

Renato, see http://www.galerie-photo.com/boyer-o...-objectif.html (in French) or http://www.galerie-photo.com/boyer-lens-optic.html (in English). Sorry, there's no Italian version.

[beegee]

I am almost positive the Carl Zeiss Hologon 110 f8 over 30K ... maybe in second position the short 160mm f6 Emil Busch Nicola Perscheid

[Hugo Zhang]

Almost. https://www.leicashop.com/vintage/ca...on-p-4416.html

[GPS]

Hi all,

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What is the most pricy/expensive/unobtainable lens that you know of, LF only, of course.

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The most expensive lens I know about was the one sent and repaired on the Hubble telescope... I think it is a LF, isn't it ??

[Armin Seeholzer]

One of my fav's ist the Rodenstock APO Ronar 1760 mm if I remember correctly it was solt in the day's for about 25'000 DM the Saphir ist much to cheap sorry!

Cheers Armin

[George Stewart]

150mm Zeiss Hypergon $10,000. AWSOME!

[Nathan Potter]

If 6X6 format qualifies as LF then the Zeiss monster mentioned in a post somewhere here might qualify. It is the Zeiss Apo Sonnar f/4 1700 mm (564 lbs). Custom ordered I believe it goes for over $100,000.00. But contact Zeiss and place your order to find the exact cost.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[neil poulsen]

If enlarging lenses meet the criteria for this discussion, I've heard of an Apo El Nikkor 480mm lens that sold for over $25,000. It's used for enlarging 8x10 film. I've heard that the number of these made was in the 20's.