Credit: Huntington Ingalls Industries Photographer unknown: the future USS Jack H. Lucas On the internet, one thing leads to another. I was poking around on the various websites of Raytheon Technologies Corporation, an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered.
The Leica Lisse store in the Netherlands has acquired an extremely rare lens: the huge, 26-pound Leica / Hughes Leitz 17mm f/2. This is the only example of this wide-angle lens produced and is currently available for purchase for just $47,200.
The Leica Store Lisse regularly obtains some rare and unique Leica products, including an unopened Leica KE-7A originally sold to the military that included an X-ray of the packaging to assure buyers what was inside.
This time, as spotted by
Leica Rumors, the store has listed an exceedingly rare fast wide-angle prime.
“Newly added into our collection is this ‘one of a kind’ Leica / Hughes Leitz 17mm 2.0 fisheye lens which almost weighs 12 kilograms (about 26 pounds),” the store writes in a description both on Facebook and its website.