Gender Player Photo

Gender Player Photo

Gender is a Balinese traditional musical instrument, usually played by two people or more. Gender is used as a staging puppet musical accompaniment. This photo is very interesting for me because I get very good lighting. I use a Nikon D60, lens 18 -55mm.

New Leica 120mm f/2.5 Lens for S2 System

Leica has released its 120mm f/2.5 lens to be used with its flagship S2 medium format camera. The Leica APO-MACRO-SUMMARIT-S 120 mm/f2.5 portrait lens is the fourth lens to be available for the 37.5 megapixels portable mastodon — the 35mm f/2.5, 70mm f/2.5 and 180mm f/3.5 were already available.

The new lens has been designed for portraits, beauty, product and macro photography, says Leica, and is the first “fast macro-telephoto lens with superior imaging quality in the Leica S-System line-up.”

It is composed of nine elements in seven groups, including three elements with anomalous partial dispersion – “two of which are highest-quality fluoride lenses for the correction of chromatic aberration.” The lens is also dust and splash-proofed, says Leica.

The Leica S2 was first unveiled at Photokina in September 2008. At this year’s Photokina, starting Monday, September 20, Leica is expected to announce new products

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Most Expensive Leica Camera Sold at Auction

The auction saw a frenzied bidding war over its highlight piece, a Leica MP2 from 1958. With a starting price of € 80,000 this ultra rare camera is one of only six ever built, making it the most sought after and collectable Leica to date. It sold for € 402,000 (approx. US$ 532,453) to an Asian collector, who is now the owner of the most expensive Leica camera ever sold at auction.

The auction took place on 4 December at the Westlicht gallery in Vienna, home to an 800 strong collection of vintage cameras.

Nikon also proved to be a big seller with two record breaking sales. The Nikon S2-E, a viewfinder camera built in 1957 and a F3 NASA from 1968 found a new owner for the sum of € 168,000. Both exceeded the starting price by more than tenfold and became the most expensive Nikon cameras to be sold at auction, claims Westlicht.

A photo auction conducted the same day had equally lucrative results. A European dealer purchased a portrait of Egon Schiele by Josef Trcka for € 43,200. A portrait of Klimt also sold for a staggering € 15,600. Other prints by classic photographers Josef Sudek, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philippe Halsman and Franz Hubmann went for prices that hugely exceeded the starting bids.

The next Westlicht Photographica Auction will take place on 28 May 2011.

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