newtoyou Loc: Eastport

"Barry Lyndon" was filmed in '74, the lenes, then, made before that.
The ten lenses cost maybe a million or two for all???.
Today's value is then NOT in the lens as much as clollecter inflation. Not 'true' value, because tastes change.
I would expect a cheaper alternative TODAY. The technology exists, so it exists.
The box office probably made the money spent on the lenses back in spades.
Bill

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

How the devil can I afford that camera after spending over $23,000,000 on a lens?
I still have the sales tax to pay.
Bill

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

The sun shines on all sides of the moon. Just like on earth.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Yes but there is a 10% restocking fee

foggypreacher Loc: Dickinson, Texas

Of course there is!

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Yes but not on all sides at once. And so there ALWAYS is a dark side. NASA’s “Artiste Division” likes to shoot the night side by earthshine cuz the tonality is reeeeally special. Plus they hafta justify subsidizing Kubrick ...

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

Of course it doesn't shine on all sides at once. Regarding the NASA connection, was it actually made for Nasa? What was the original cost?

Edit: Yup, it was made for NASA. As far as the price, it's a pretty safe bet that it was no where near the current multi-million asking price. Besides, it's unlikely in the extreme that any movie producer would spend that kind of money, times three, for a lens to shoot a movie that he had no idea how much revenue it would generate. Someone is asking big bucks for a lens based on it's fame and Apollo connection.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

"There is no dark side of the moon, realy. Matter of fact, it's all dark."

Canisdirus

So is the earth...using your line of reasoning.
But no one thinks about it in those terms.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

"Dark Side of the moon" is just an expression, not an astronomical fact! "where the sun don't shine" is just part of another rter rude expression".

The lens in question may be the world's most costly lens? There are many outrageously large and expensive things in the "record books" How about a Belaz 75710 Russian-made truck, weighing in at 360 Tons (empty), or that million-dollar stereo speaker system, KHARMA'S GRAND ENIGMA- OK if your living room is the size of Radio City Music Hall! Most of this stuff is impractical for other than specialized usages and out of the range of most folks' amount of disposable income but they are fun to talk about.

Well- for multimillions of dollars, I hope that lens performs better that my old (Leica) Noctolux f/1.0 or that old Canon f/.95. Wide open that lens had the resolution of the bottom of a shot glass. The lens was so large that it onscured the viewfinder's field of view of my old M-3.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

I was quoting the last words from a Pink Floyd album.
I was originally commenting on the lenses as an 'odd' bit of trivia.
Nothing else.
Bill

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

Just how much GAS do you have????