Expensive lens: Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000. Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one. Now if it fits...

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

Stanley Kubrick has been on his way to Jupiter for some time now. Look for a garage sale.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

So which one of them is for sale?

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Clearly GAS can be real!

carlberg

Kubrick ordered them for the candlelight scenes in "Barry Lyndon".

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I use mine for snaps to Instagram, they get looks of likes & Favs.

User ID

You can build your own for about $2,000. No tools or skill needed and it will be no worse than the original ... a rather low bar to leap anywho. Best of all it will even fit on your camera.

Basic ingredients are a brand-x f/0.95, or f/1.1, ~75mm lens and a cheap “speed booster”. You’ll even have an operational iris, which IIRC the Zeiss lens lacks.

You may not get the Barry Lyndon effect when you first point it at your cat. Check out the lighting in the ballroom scene to see how it’s really done.

User ID

CHG_CANON wrote:

I use mine for snaps to Instagram, they get looks of likes & Favs.

My iPhone 14+ has a Barry Lyndon filter.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

I can pretty much guess what my wife will say if I wanted to buy this gem of a lens. Sadly, what she would say to me can never be printed because it would involve a great deal of pain and embarrassment.

Happy Shooting!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

I'd pass on it. At that price it is probably grey market!

Canisdirus

User ID wrote:

My iPhone 14+ has a Barry Lyndon filter.

Does it have a waxy overtone?

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

SO, when are you buying one?

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

newtoyou wrote:

Looking about on line, I found a Carl Zeiss 50mm planar F/0.7 for $23,100,000.
Only ten made. Stanley Kubrick owns three, NATO six, and Mr. Z kept one.
Now if it fits Canon.... If they have PayPal.
Bill

Wait for The 2 for one Sale......and auction-off the 2nd copy......genius !

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

To me there is a direct relationship between the quality of a lens and the quality of my eyesight. I hold the same belief to audio systems. With $10 ears anything more doesn't mean much to me.