The Contax 16mm f/8 Hologon is an ultra-wide-angle prime lens for the Contax G rangefinder system, designed for the G1 and G2 bodies. Its f/8 fixed aperture and rectilinear ultra-wide coverage made it a specialist tool for architectural, interior and landscape work where extreme angle of view and corner-to-corner geometry mattered more than speed.

UK auction evidence for this lens is thin: a single recorded hammer result of £950 from November 2006 sets the only documented saleroom benchmark, so a meaningful price range or median cannot be derived. Because that figure is a wholesale auction-hammer result rather than a retail asking price, what a clean copy actually sells for in today's market in 2026 is likely to differ, and the 16mm Hologon's scarcity means current value is best gauged by tracking fresh auction listings rather than relying on this lone data point.