Your for just €50,000!

Collectors.. that's why.
 
They should stick one of these at the top of the Shard, connected to a web feed.
 
I'll stick with my Sigma 8mm. OK, it can't see behind itself but does cover 180°. Oh, only cost me £220 as well! Gives me AF and auto aperture too, although DoF is so huge that AF isn't really needed. Even got an aperture ring so can be used on some older film bodies as well as electronically controlled ones.
 
You can use it to get the Eiffel tower, the statue of liberty and the Egyptian pyramids all in the same shot. Or use it for self portraits without turning the camera round or using a mirror.


Steve.
 
An interest free loan on my Barclaycard would let me pay for that in less than 103 years and 4 months...:confused:
 
Pookeyhead said:
Collectors.. that's why.
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True. I can remember when you could just go and buy one of these over the counter (in theory). But only three people actually did, so Nikon stopped making it, and no other manufacturers bothered. So now it is both unique and extremely rare, and worth a fortune! Mad world.
 
I remember this when it first came out. If I recall it was priced at about £4000 which at the time was a large amount of money but I now wish I'd bought ten of them (had I the money).

I remember a promotional picture for it where someone had taken a picture of the front of a single-decker bus. The picture showed the whole of the front of the vehicle and the blurb underneath the picture said that the image was taken at a distance of two inches from the bus's radiator grill; quite incredible at the time -- and even now.
 
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