Mammoth fisheye lens from the 1970s sells for £100,000

It's getting rarer these days to find the kind of specialist shops that have so much stock from years gone by that they're more like a mini-museum than a retail outlet. Grays of Westminster is just such an emporium. Exclusively dealing in products spanning the whole history of the Nikon Corporation, the award-winning central London curiosity shop managed to generate a huge online buzz this week by announcing the sale of an exceptionally rare monster of a wide-angle Nikkor lens for an equally gargantuan price of £100,000 (US$162,312)... Continue Reading Mammoth fisheye lens from the 1970s sells for £100,000

Section: Digital Cameras

Tags: Cameras, Fish-eye, Lens, Nikon, Vintage

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