From what I remeber Hassleblad made them for some
tire companies for tire inspections and serious
industrial usage. Never released them to the public.
Wish I could remember where I saw all this, but the
lens looked gigantic and probably would cost 100k or
more if one was to order one.
Mark Lloyd
--- "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 00:29 12/16/01, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> >Maybe my imagination is running away with me. Even
> >stranger is that the lens might be preferable in
> the
> >setup it is in as what is a 24mm perspective
> >equivalent to in MF photography. I think MF fisheye
> >lenses start at 30mm and I read somewhere (memory
> very
> >fuzzy here) that Hassleblad made circular fisheye
> for
> >tire inspections that was in this range. So it
> might
> >just be a very cool lens for MF.
>
> MF full-frame fisheyes are 30mm. They cover 180
> deg. across the diagnoal,
> same as the 16mm Zuiko. Unless Hassey made only a
> handful of custom lenses
> that are virtually unknown among MF buffs, the only
> production MF circular
> fisheye I'm aware of is the 19mm f/4.5 for the Kowa
> Six (also fits the Six
> MM and Super 66):
>
> http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/bronfe.html#article
> It has a magnificently enormous protruding convex
> front objective. This
> may be the one you're thinking of. These Kowa
> lenses are exceptionally rare.
>
> Nikon supposedly made 15 custom MF "cloud cameras"
> with circular
> fisheyes. According to the information I found on
> them they are dedicated,
> specialized cameras with the lens permanently
> attached.
>
> -- John
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