1600mm Leica Lens Is World’s Most Expensive At $2 Million
$2,064,500 for a 1600mm f/5.6 Outch!!! Would you buy one?
It was produced as a custom order by, Qatari prince Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, who paid a staggering $2,064,500 for this lens.
There is also a prototype on display at Leica’s factory showroom in Solms, Germany, and can be admired there.
Making fun of the poor…
Please do me a favour and send it to my home address.
– …but be guick, I do not want to wait :-)
OUCH!!!!!
I’ll buy one with a 2x teleconverter!!!!!!Rsrsrsrsrsrsrsrs!!!!
I’m sure that the equivalent Nikon lens is more than adequate, this is the kind of shit that keeps Leica equipment in the hands of dentists, lawyers and investment bankers and out of the hands of real photographers. While I would really love to have an M240 I will never buy one unless Leica gets real with their prices!
Things get crazier every year.
Where are these $2 million images that follow?…
The story is here (with the original photo from the Leica prototype in the reception in Solms)
http://www.overgaard.dk/leica-history-page-2.html
Oil money…
The Prince can afford someone to carry that lens.