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Pere Casals
10-Apr-2018, 10:45
https://web.archive.org/web/20180410173534/https://www.ebay.com/itm/Holy-Grail-of-Lenses-Apo-Nikkor-1780mm-35x35-and-larger-ULF-Wet-Plate/192485843526?hash=item2cd10ce246:g:RzIAAOSwqGlaroBD
tgtaylor
10-Apr-2018, 11:23
There's another one for sale on ebay right now for just $12,000 - but this one has a shutter!

If you could hook-up a camera back to, film or digital, and mount it on a drive this would be good setup for astrophotography

Thomas
Pere Casals
10-Apr-2018, 11:44
There's another one for sale on ebay right now for just $12,000 - but this one has a shutter!

If you could hook-up a camera back to, film or digital, and mount it on a drive this would be good setup for astrophotography

Thomas

What a shutter !

Well, $12000 is the starting bid...

For digital it would be better a regular telescope. But we can imagine it with a huge glass plate and over reinforced tracking gear...
consummate_fritterer
10-Apr-2018, 11:49
Wow, I sold two or three of the very long Apo Nikkor process lenses many years ago for a very small fraction of that.
Amedeus
11-Apr-2018, 10:54
Hmmm ... I bought one less than 6 months ago for a lot less than that and two were sold in 2017 around the $5k mark

What the auction site says it sold for is not always what it sold for imho ... but data is data ... the lower cost one never sold ...

Cheers,
Pere Casals
11-Apr-2018, 11:48
Hmmm ... I bought one less than 6 months ago

Rudy, I'm curious if you have used it yet or if you plan to do so...

Using such a glass is not a joke....
ic-racer
11-Apr-2018, 13:28
Apo lens for wetplate color separations?
Amedeus
11-Apr-2018, 22:07
Rudy, I'm curious if you have used it yet or if you plan to do so...

Using such a glass is not a joke....

Plan on using it, only buy lenses to shoot :o

cheers