I’ll trade you my car for a Leica lens
Leica recently released a new lens, the Noctilux.
Normally I don’t geek out over camera equipment (consider that of my dozen or so cameras, only one is digital and at least half of them are made of plastic), but this is worth mentioning because the apeture can open as wide as f/0.98.
For those of you not privy to camera jargon, it basically means you can shoot without a flash in candlelight
As of now, it’s the fastest consumer lens on the market.
So how much will this wonder cost when it’s released?
$11,260.
And this doesn’t include the additional $5,000 for the Leica M8 body used in the promo photo above. I could sell my car and not even be halfway towards being able to afford that lens.
And people wonder why I use plastic cameras….
(Information via Gizmondo)
I dont think many people will ever get to use it in their life time :(. Well that wont stop them making good photos either would it?