I've only gone and done it

[luckycat]

I bought this just now. Took five years.



For what it does, click here.

Forget your fancy schmancy HDR and your Lytro and your clever autofocussing. Ten aperture blades positioned perfectly to refract the light coming in. I present to you spinning bokeh.

[MovingIn07]

OK. I'll be the first to say it. It helps you take photos that are out of focus?

[jacky_se]

And why on earth would you take 5 years for that? Take any camera and shake when you click.

Voila!

[TigerSun]

OK. I'll be the first to say it. It helps you take photos that are out of focus?

Damn, you are always faster than me!

[luckycat]

Heathens! Outrageous!

Bokeh is out of focus. You still focus (sharply with a beautiful carl zeiss glass lens) on your subject. It just throws out the out of focus into a whirlwind. Amazing!

Jacky I had to (1) save up and (2) convince my Mrs. Took five years.

Anyone looking for a sound investment should forget about short selling or property. This lens has gone up in price by about 20% in the last 8 months. Roughly the same time that micro 4/3s have taken to become a player in the market. That is no coincidence.

edit: luckily, my seller is selling me it for the same price we agreed last year.

[WMDS]

1) how much does it cost
2) Why not use photoshop or lightroom to achieve the same results?

[HongKongFoot]

There is something in this world that exists made by a god like company called Adobe, its called photoshop and it would of been cheaper than paying for lens from some Kraut that takes bad pictures...

[dumbdonkey]

3) why take photos at all?

[wtbhotia]

my blackberry can do that easily

[vinyljunky]

LC, ignore the naysayers. That is a beautiful piece of glass, saving up to buy one myself. In the meantime, I just invested in this:

Hand made in Japan, number 287 of 400 assembled. It's a beauty, took it for a spin this weekend and waiting for the results to develop.