Tomorrow's Miracle Lens Today! (Zunow f/1.1, circa 1958)
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Nikon Bob
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I bet that price in 1958 would have made you gag.
Bob
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bmattock
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About $4,500 USD in today's dollars, if my math is right. Yeah. Gagging.
Heck, it's actually cheaper now.
Zunow 1.1 50mm on eBay
Tuolumne
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Is it any good?
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visiondr
cyclic iconoclast
Expensive, yeah; but heck, you can shoot "Night Club Floor Shows".
bmattock
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Good is relative - it's fast. If speed is what you need, then quality comes second. Better the fuzzy image you can sell than the non-existing image you can't.
iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
According to a couple of online inflation calculators, it's equivalent to approx. $3200 - $3300 U.S. I've never heard of Zunow, anyway.
furcafe
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iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
Thanks - Immediately after I posted that, I found that article plus the camerapedia entry 🙂
furcafe
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mhv
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Actually, wasn't 450$ the price of a new Leica M3 or Nikon SP when they were still new? Surely not cheap, but at least comparable to something else.
Al Kaplan
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I can remember that when the M4 first came out the body listed for $288, the same as the M3. An M2 without a self timer was $200 and $250 got you an M2 with a self timer. When the M2R was released it came with a 50mm Dual-Range Summicron for about about $375. The Nikon F and the SP were both the same frice, $329 with an f/2 Nikkor and $375 with an f/1.4. The original f/1.4 for the F was a 58mm while the S version was 50mm. Nikon also had a 50mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor in S mount, and of course all the S lenses were available to correctly focus with Contax cameras as well as being available in LTM.
George S.
How many is enough?
And it can focus all the way out to 100 feet! Wow! 😉
Hacker
黑客
Anyone knows what filter size it takes?
