50% off on this lens. 2% AmEx surcharge.
Available In
-Nikon Z(black and silver).
-Canon RF (black and silver)
-Fujifilm X Mount(black and silver)
-Leica L-Mount(Black)
-Sony E-Mount(black and silver).
Lens details:
Creates Beautiful Sunstars from f/4 to f/22
Aperture Range: f/4 to f/22
Manual Focus Operation
Double-Sided Aspherical Element
High Image Definition Across Frame
Minimal Distortion and Vignetting
112° Field of View
72mm Filter Thread
Lens rental is not uncommon amongst photographers. A week or two with a lens is far less of an investment than a $5k+ purchase that might only get used a few times a year.
Camera gear rental in Australia is woeful, so that common here. In US they can rent a lens or body (on almost anything, including $20,000 telephoto lenses) for a day, a weekend, a month. I am yet to find anywhere here that offers that.
I've hired from Kayell in Collingwood in the past without any issues…
@jv: Yes, and as above, it is a complete BS system. Minimum monthly rental amount of $24/month for a very basic Canon RF 18-45mm (but actually $33/month because that is the minimum), minimal rental period is 6 months, plus $29 admin fee, so a minimum rental charge of $227 on a lens costing $470 to buy outright (much less on OzBargain deals). Total garbage.
What I am referring to in US is where you can rent almost any photographic gear for a few days (or weeks) like you would rent a car. They will even offer to ship it to you. This is ideal if wanting to try out a lens or body, or just wanting something specialised for a particular event of travel trip (eg. a big lens for an African safari). None of this minimum 6 month rubbish.
@jv: That sounds like the "Try before you buy" system they offer, which they stress is NOT a rental scheme. Completely different to renting.
Check their website for gear rental - minimum $33/month, minimum 6 months & admin fee - same BS as all the others.
That sounds like the "Try before you buy" system they offer,
Nope, when I hired a few years back you could hire, daily, weekly, monthly etc….
Didn't tell the full story…
Minimum rental fee = $33/month
Minimum rental period = 6 months
One off admin charge = $48
Assuming you can get past the minimum rental fee of $33/month by adding other items to rental, the minimum cost of this rental is probably $18 x 6 + $48 = $156.
Looks interesting
Had no idea nisi had moved to doing optics too
There are lots of things that you don't know about…
They don't bother to make one for Nikon F-mount :(
I believe it was basically with straight aperture blades? Wonder if I can design and Cricut a custom aperture pattern and carefully mount to the back of my existing lens to achieve the same?…
I experimented once with thick cover plastic - created criss cross pattern (90 degree angle) on the surface to create 4 pointed stars and 60degree angle to create 6 pointed stars. Fun experiment, but the image quality wasn't that good since I used pastic instead of glass.
