Photography as a hobby is fun, exciting, sporting and adventurous, however it can get pretty expensive and difficult to sustain with your dream for expensive and best glasses. It’s this one factor which most newcomers without analyzing their primary needs and not knowing what to buy, die out on their passion rather too quick. Before you browse further and jump to conclusions, please remember lenses or for that matter additional camera gears are important and awesome update to your photography journey, but it’s a still a small part of the equation in taking good picture – ultimately its you as a photographer’s skill which adds to the most important factor. Don’t let the lust for expensive gears (the list are exhaustive both from native and third party manufacturers) get the best of you, unless you are ready to sell your organ or blow your fortune.
Try to become one of the best photographer and work in one of those company who would pay you huge salary as well as lent out those expensive gears on field.
Below are the Top 10 World’s most expensive lenses –
1. Leica 1600mm f/5.6 Telephoto Lens
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that the world’s priciest lens is a Leica with their impressive red dot logo on it. Leica made this APO-Telyt-R 1600mm/f 5.6 custom lens for Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar at a price just topping US $2 million. This lens has never been sent out for review, nor has any picture published taken this lens. With a weight of 60 kg (132 pounds), it’s no wonder the owner also bought a custom Mercedes for lugging it around. (more…)
Every Camera lens manufacturers use general acronyms, abbreviations and terminology to best identify lens characteristics and its overall performance. At times they are confusing and as an amateur photographer you would have a daunting task to choose from.
