Nikkor 6mm 2.8 Ai

[ArendV]

I have just gone through several posts on this amazing fisheye and how you have mastered it with your custom made tripod setup, great work Erik !

[Andrea B.]

Eric, the range and quality of your Scotland images is excellent. It was fascinating to see what goes into using such a lens. I hope the buyer of the Big Fish is able to use it half so well.

[Edgy01]

Thanks!

It's flare from the sun, it's there opposite the sun in more or less all shots outside when the sun is on the sky, often there is also a large orange and smaller blue flare blob and several blue and purple flares, there should be some visible in the building on the right of the sun.

When shooting directly, cantered into the sun this orange flare is circular and in midway in the image. Amazing lens

Been shooting with both my 8/2.8 fish and many other extreme wide angles (e.g., the 13mm) and one big advantage of the SLR & DSLR is the ability to observe flare as I'm composing.  If not too critical to the composition of the shot I purposely put the flare in an area of the image that I can easily clone out with PhotoShop.  If the flare winds up in a complex, busy part of the shot that flare is much harder to edit out.

Dan
Santa Barbara

[Erik Lund]

Thank you all for the comments!

I have on purpose kept most of the flares to show what and how the lens actually shoots - I have on several occasions noted that somehow that particular flare spot actually hit the shadow of the lens on the ground right in front of me... you will see some of these in the Scotland thread...

I have enjoyed shooting the 8mm 2.8 and 14mm in various versions an the tiny 12mm Voigtlander they all flare a lot,,, the worst lens was the 14-24mm AFS - very unpredictable in this regard.

The 6mm 2.8 gives the most amazing images straight up - So only real chance of getting rid of flare was to move around a lot,,,

[rosko]

It's flare from the sun, it's there opposite the sun in more or less all shots outside when the sun is on the sky, often there is also a large orange and smaller blue flare blob and several blue and purple flares, there should be some visible in the building on the right of the sun.

When shooting directly, cantered into the sun this orange flare is circular and in midway in the image. Amazing lens ;

Thanks, Erik !

Amazing lens indeed !

[BEZ]

Erik,
I may always associate you with the 6mm  ....it was a perfect fit, a giant man with a gigantic lens.

Seeing you expertly work with the lens in Scotland was the highlight of the trip for me. I still look for 6mm shots when I am walking around, I expect you do also 

Cheers

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

Juast in case, one was just listed on ebay: 262455748503

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Apparently at an "elevated" price ...  USD 85 K is a pretty stiff starting point for an auction.

The seller is OK though, I bought several lenses from them, but of course not in the same price league as the 6/2.8 is positioned..

[Erik Lund]

Indeed it looks like a mint sample, I miss an image of the mount and rear element,,,

[Roland Vink]

No picture of the serial number either, but the description mentions serial no.629436, which is the last one known.

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

Apparently at an "elevated" price ...  USD 85 K is a pretty stiff starting point for an auction.

The seller is OK though, I bought several lenses from them, but of course not in the same price league as the 6/2.8 is positioned..

Yep, 25k sounds more familiar to me :biggrin:

[Akira]

Here's a timely article posted on imaging-resource.com, although it is nowhere near this thread in terms of both thoroughness and insanity. 

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2016/05/31/not-for-the-frugal-fisheye-photographer-rare-nikon-6mm-f-2.8-ai-s-lens-avai

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Except for it basically being about the very same lens sample (owned by Photografica of Copenhagen, Denmark), it really adds nothing except for the oohs and aahs of people never using such a lens.

Erik's contributions to the Scotland thread as a whole should be rightfully considered a true classic.

[Jakov Minić]

Erik was and is a star 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A *big* star ...