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See here:
http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/can.htm
Very good evaluation (as he did before for the Leica M- and screwmount lenses)
cheers, Frank
I enjoyed looking through this, but was disappointed that it's not more inclusive (e.g. no 50/2.8) and of course, as with any opinionated guide, I'd disagree with some of the evaluations, for example:
-- The 100/2 isn't merely as good as the original 90/2 removable-head Summicron, it's significantly better. No nasty highlight flare at full aperture like the Summi!
-- The 85/1.5 isn't as bad as he says. Wonder if he actually tried one?
Still, it's nice to have something like this just to help Canon-lens newcomers, and to provide at least a vague initial reference point for prices (maybe it will dissuade eBay listers from thinking that common Canon lenses are worth ludicrously big bucks, for example...)
I don't have the 100/2 and 85/1.5, just the 85/1.8, which in my feel is in-plane with my Zeiss Planar 1.4/85 SLR lens, considered as one of the best portrait lenses ever...
I neither believe the 85/1.5 is so bad. Maybe it's soft wide-open, which can be nice and is common for a high-speed early 1950's portrait lens. Erwin Puts had tested the equivalent Leica Summarex and wasn't so bad compared to the current Summilux 75/1.4. Sources say that Nikons and Canons high speed portrait lenses were at least equivalent in the early 1950's. All of these lenses are for "RF freaks" who hate SLR cameras... be honest, highspeed portrait lens on a SLR are much better to handle. "you see what you get", Out of focus control, even weight...
From collectors view, these big glasses are nice and impressive, though.. ;-)
cheers, Frank
I was surprised that he says the 50mm f1.2 is $290, similar to the 50mm f1.4 at $275. I have the f1.4 and I guess I think of the f1.2 as considerably more exotic and desirable.
So what's the heck with prices in the last months?
Dollar too weak? Buyers unable to read? Wanna pay Leica prices? :
1.5/35 for 674 USD
2/100 for 835 USD
Asking 750 USD for another 1.5/35
I don't believe that..! :bang:
--
PS, hey, this is my 3rd user-name. I couldn't log in with the right password...
Taunusreiter ? :)
Did you try deleting all your cookies and things like that, I think there' s a thread with instructions somewhere...
Agree that some Canons are starting to become way expensive...
boy I tried multiple browsers... deleting all my cookies for log-in a group, R U nuts :-)
I think that all those price guides are very optomisticly stated. I think they represent a best case scenerio and by far are not the true selling prices for the equipment listed.
back alley
02-11-2005, 05:10
how can i trust a price guide made by a man who is too lazy (?) to go to the post office and ship items to canada?
joe
Good morning Joe.
Have your coffee yet?
back alley
02-11-2005, 05:38
morning rover and no, it's dripping now.
ya gotta remember, i'm sicilian and i hold a grudge for a long time. my loyalty also lasts as long.
this guy (who i think is also italian) wont ship to canada and in an email to me was quite dismissive.
i wont forget and have no problems advertising about him.
after the last comment i made about him on photo.net he requested my email address from them but has not used it so far.
i'm waiting...
joe
All Sicilian? I have enough trouble controlling my 25%, so I fully understand.
d30gaijin
02-11-2005, 06:14
So what's the heck with prices in the last months?
Dollar too weak? Buyers unable to read? Wanna pay Leica prices? :
Asking 750 USD for another 1.5/35
I don't believe that..! :bang:
Sonnar,
That 35/1.5 with the "Buy It Now" price of $750 is my old lens. I advertised it here a couple of months ago for $495. It didn't sell, so I advertised on PN for the same asking price and sold it for $450 to that person, who pissed and moaned through the whole deal trying to get me lower on price. And now he/she is asking $750 for it. Bwahahahaha!
Don
Hi Rover, "optimistic" in terms of prices of collectibles means either too low (buyer) or too high (seller). So you mean this friendly person wants to have all that stuff?
Hi Don: cute :cool: I saw gontax.g2 on virtually every bidlist of Canon RF gear. Maybe he misunderstood one gets the article when beeing the highest bidder most of the time the auction goes... ;-)
I ask him yesterday to shutdown it and sell me the lens for 500 together with the shade (not sure this is an original) and a proper front-cap.
The 1.5/35 is on my wishlist (notabene, for a right price) even if I expect not better performance than my 2/35. Why did you sell it?
How, another bunch of 1.5/35 offered there...
and a 2/35, buy-it-now for 550, pride asking for a handfull of alloy and glass.. (bought my for 450 bundled with a mint Canon-7...)
Good news for buyers: A fine 1.4/50 with caps went last night for 255 USD. I sniped on it but was too stingy ;-) ..still regret the 215$ chance... :bang:
I watched that lens too. The seller originally posted it without pictures so the little camere icon indicating that the auction description included pictures wasn't there. I was hoping it would go really cheaply. $255 was a good price though, very clean with caps and hood.
Hehe, I think we ALL were watching that auction :D
Sometimes it's no matter how it was advertised. This 215$ chance was really BIG, Big picture, frame, headline-listing, loudmouth described, best lens on earth and stuff like that... An amaurotic could see it, and I missed... ;-)
...Anyway, my small chrome 1.5/50 isn't a bad lens :-)
Tom Conte
02-15-2005, 03:51
My experiences with FM (http://www.fredmiranda.com) were that, after the community built up, ebay became irrelevant and all trading was done amongst trusted folk. Here's hoping RFF grows large enough that the 35mm Classifieds section duplicates the vitality of Fred's B&S forum.
...oh and I found this price guide too optimistic by far.
...oh and Joe I can relate to hot blooded Italians.
Tom
..I bought most of my lenses at this price or slightly cheaper.
Frank
A very good chrome late 1.9/85 without caps went for a very decent 78 USD... http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3875068932
I've been watching 3 50/1.8s. One closed at $201 another at $148.
The 1.8/50 was one of the lenses that made Canons name... just bought a chrome/brass one, yellow-brown coated, true bargain, mint, 140 USD. The first slides say it's a jewel. Far better than the black one my Canon-P came with. From what I have seen, the fogging occurs more often on later lenses of this type.
Sonnar,
That 35/1.5 with the "Buy It Now" price of $750 is my old lens. I advertised it here a couple of months ago for $495. It didn't sell, so I advertised on PN for the same asking price and sold it for $450 to that person, who pissed and moaned through the whole deal trying to get me lower on price. And now he/she is asking $750 for it. Bwahahahaha!
Don
what? Don, that person bought a lens from you just to resell it? :confused:
back alley
02-23-2005, 04:40
not uncommon.
joe
Don, you should have offered that lens to me. Dollar allows me to pay 500 for an exc+ 1.5/35 (if caps included).
d30gaijin
02-23-2005, 06:10
Don, you should have offered that lens to me. Dollar allows me to pay 500 for an exc+ 1.5/35 (if caps included).
Sonnar,
I offered it up for sale here first. Nobody wanted it so I then put it on photo.net.
Too bad, because it was a beauty. Truly mint condition.
Best regards,
Don
back alley
02-23-2005, 06:42
it's not like i didn't WANT it, it's more like i had no money for it.
it was a good price, but poverty prevails.
maybe a payment plan next time...?;)
joe
sockeyed
02-23-2005, 08:14
I think that the gods were smiling on me when I picked up a gorgeous chrome Serenar 50/1.8 for $56 on the Bay the other day. The ad warned of fungus, but it turns out that it was just some moisture on the inner elements, and my trusted camera tech should be able to clear 99% of it.
BTW, I've only handled FSU RF glass up to know, and I was astounded by the build quality and weight of this Canon lens. What a great piece of gear!
d30gaijin
02-23-2005, 08:51
I think that the gods were smiling on me when I picked up a gorgeous chrome Serenar 50/1.8 for $56 on the Bay the other day. The ad warned of fungus, but it turns out that it was just some moisture on the inner elements, and my trusted camera tech should be able to clear 99% of it.
Sockeyed,
Good show on a good price on ebay for the 50/1.8. Stuff there has been going crazy, or so it seems to me. Pentax K mount lenses have gone out of sight in terms of prices.
Best regards,
Don
d30gaijin
02-23-2005, 08:56
but poverty prevails.
Joe,
I've been experiencing a bit of tha myself of late, which is why I've been selling off so much of my stuff. But I still have my 35/50/90 Summicrons and M6. As the guns nuts say, "You can have them when you pry them from my cold dead fingers." (no flames please, I am also a gun nut, and proud of the title).
Best regards,
Don
Brian Sweeney
02-23-2005, 09:00
I too have found that the Canon lens tend to fog up; but it mostly occurs on the surfaces on each side of the aperture blades. Must have been the oil they used; my Nikkors just do not do this. So far I have cleaned the fog off of 4 Canon lenses, one chrome and three black. Neither of the F0.95 (RF and TV) lenses that i have showed any evidence of the fog; but they may have been professionally cleaned before I got them. The rear group comes out easily; although the 50mm F1.8 took some grinding down of the tips to get at. Joe has it now. The lenses are hard-coated, so the haze came off without damage. On the F1.2 lens the oil "stained" the canada Balsam of the cemented rear pair, but no real effect on pictures.
I am surprised nobody has asked me yet what happened to the third 50/1.8 I am watching yet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3874285719&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
sockeyed
02-23-2005, 10:21
Brian - it's good to know that Canon lenses come clean quite easily. I can't wait to get mine back.
back alley
02-23-2005, 12:37
another who wont ship outside of the states.
he can keep his lens...
joe
Yep, with auction texts like:
Bidders please note: I DO NOT ship to any foreign countries
I also DO NOT accept bids from any foreign country, even if you have a friend in the USA.
Any foreign bidder who "wins" this auction is guaranteed to NOT RECEIVE this item, and will have immediate NEGATIVE FEEDBACK posted.
Ok ok, after all, it's his lens and his auction, but you could always use a proxy buyer and have the lens shipped to you after.
Shipping outside of the USA, from the USA is tricky. You take on loads of additional responsability, and if you sold it via PayPal... the insurance they offer is null and void. Can be real scary as a seller.
The first time I had a buyer from out of the US, was for a Contax Planar 135mm in mint. Now... it sold for a bargin (sad), $1300. The buyer was in HK. Scarred the hell out of me. And he was a new bidder. And there was no listing for hong Kong in the USPS price list, so I had to guess at shipping...
Very scary.
Would I sell another lens to that buyer? In a heart beat. Transaction was scary... but very smooth.
Still, you might want to think about what stresses the seller goes through.
Rob
Yes that's also true, I can imagine that after a very bad experience somebody may prefer not to risk for the same on a second one, it's completely understandable.
I am sorry, but I don't understand what the risk is to ship something out of the country. I have sold at least 10 items internationally and had absolutely no problems at all with any transactions. I don't know when your transaction took place Rob and things may be different now, but the shipping calculator at USPS.com is very complete and accurate if you know the weight of your item. The first risk of a transaction is taken by the buyer who pays with a promise of delivery. The buyer of my R3a in Sweden became nervous after 2 weeks and I emailed him a scanned copy of my receipt from the post office with the customs form number on so that he could track down the package. The buyer of my Canon 135 lens is in Hong Kong and he choose to pay extra to upgrade the shipping so that I could send the package insured. I think the biggest risk is on the part of the buyer not the seller.
I'll even go one step farther and say that the seller of this lens looses money as a result of his decision as it cuts out such a large % of potential buyers who even if they don't win, may bid on his lens.
If a buyer contradicts the purchase with their Credit Card Company, then you lose everything. Item and cash. If done after shipment.
I will have to look into that, though I don't have anything left to sell. Wouldn't the risk be the same for a domestic sale?
I had a couple of bad experiences with buyers from Ukraine, Canada and one tried from Nigeria. I was young Ebay seller, inexperienced, and paid by Western Union a Canadian from Montreal. Never saw the camera. Western Union didn't even warn me!
Ukrainian thief (said he was an American missionary with a PayPal confirmed address in the States) paid via PayPal with a stolen CC. Asked me to ship to Ukraine. I ship the camera, then later PayPal puts my account into "negative"!
3rd time I got smarter. This guy from Nigeria wanted to buy my laptop. Tried sending fake Money Order. He even called me 3 times from Nigeria! ...
So, I understand the frustration of some sellers.
back alley
02-23-2005, 15:56
go get em rover!
as the buyer the risk is more mine than the seller. period.
if the seller has qualms then accept only money orders.
i only pay by money order. clean, simple, easy.
joe
joe, I asked my post office in Ne Orleans about Canadians paying by Money Order. She said I could send intnl. MO, but didn't know anything about how a Canadian would go about paying me with MO.....Can you explain what she meant?
back alley
02-23-2005, 16:45
not really sure miss nat.
i can either go to a bank or a post office and get money orders in various currencies.
i buy lots off ebay from the states with them. the postal money orders are a different colour than regular money orders and are for international (non canadian) use.
i have never had a problem with them or a bank money order.
i don't know what extra paper work your 'mericans;) have to go thru but if i send a parcel to america i fill out one small form and that's it. the post office even gave me a handful of them so i can do it at home and hold up the line.
to me it's just an excuse on the part of sellers so as not to be the least bit inconvenienced
and at worst it's a sort of anti 'foreign' bias.
i'm a dual citizen and i take it personally when i'm refused serviced.
joe
not really sure miss nat.
i can either go to a bank or a post office and get money orders in various currencies.
i buy lots off ebay from the states with them. the postal money orders are a different colour than regular money orders and are for international (non canadian) use.
i have never had a problem with them or a bank money order.
joe
I'll have to do a trial "international" sale with you, Joe ;) ...just don't have anything to offer to you 'cept my OM-4 stuff......
back alley
02-23-2005, 17:16
i had an om 1 and 2 many years ago. they were great, so small and quiet compared to what else was out there at the time.
i like the lenses too. i had a 35 and i think an 85 or 100, kinda foggy lately. (me not the lenses)
joe
I will have to look into that, though I don't have anything left to sell. Wouldn't the risk be the same for a domestic sale?
Paypal has a seller garuntee that protects against fraud by a buyer. If the address is confirmed only. Easy for in US, and many places (but not al) in Canada. Elsewhere? Not really.
go get em rover!
as the buyer the risk is more mine than the seller. period.
if the seller has qualms then accept only money orders.
i only pay by money order. clean, simple, easy.
joe
I dunno about where you live, but there has recently been a huge scam involving fraudulent money orders. So here is how I look at it: compare their ebay and paypal accounts. THen make a gamble. One way or the other. But money orders are no real security... unless they are US Postal. Which I can go straight to a Post Office and cash. But few people want to go to a US base over seas to get em:)
back alley
02-23-2005, 17:39
robert,
where i live is posted right under the photo identifying me.
where i live, we have the internet, televison and newspapers.
i can watch cnn, the bbc and cbc on the tube!
we get most of the news you get and then some.
if you want real security i guess the buyer and seller need to meet face to face and hope that the seller isn't pushing a product that will self destruct in the seconds following the deal and that the buyer isn't using counterfeit cash.
if you want 100% security stay home and don't buy or sell anything.
ok, now before this turns into a pissing contest...
we are each allowed to feel and believe what we will.
i feel strongly about this issue and choose to state my opinion and will never buy from someone who refuses to do business with my adopted country, as well, i will not do business with anyone who refuses to sell to my native land either.
joe
robert,
where i live is posted right under the photo identifying me.
where i live, we have the internet, televison and newspapers.
i can watch cnn, the bbc and cbc on the tube!
we get most of the news you get and then some.
if you want real security i guess the buyer and seller need to meet face to face and hope that the seller isn't pushing a product that will self destruct in the seconds following the deal and that the buyer isn't using counterfeit cash.
if you want 100% security stay home and don't buy or sell anything.
ok, now before this turns into a pissing contest...
we are each allowed to feel and believe what we will.
i feel strongly about this issue and choose to state my opinion and will never buy from someone who refuses to do business with my adopted country, as well, i will not do business with anyone who refuses to sell to my native land either.
joe
Joe,
As a business owner, I happen to deal with people in foriegn countries (btw, I have had dial-up in Canada for five years, I own an ISP). Not everyone is going to trust with all the scams that are run from outside of one country to another. Hell, it seems harder to get someone to ship from Germany to the USA that from the USA to Canada. Heck, some buyers don't even always realize Canada is foreign:)
If your Canadian, you can always offer a phone number. No country code? Included in my long distance? Makes people seem a lot safer. Heck, see if paypal can confirm your address. That last is the stumbling block.
Btw- in the eighties, my family was hit with well over $40,000 in scam via money orders... I don't like them, and do not accept them normally. We ate it.
And don't forget, with European prices it's usually dollars = Euros, and with the good (for us) exchange rate (and the scarcity of Canon LTM lenses in Europe), he will most definitely lose quite a bit of money by shutting out potential buyers...
Roman
The first risk of a transaction is taken by the buyer who pays with a promise of delivery.
True... and of course, that the item meets the description!
If a buyer states he allows paypal but no credit-card, this lowers my confidence to his seriosity, and if there is any doubt I would not bid because in this case there is no chance for me to get money back if the item isn't what it should be. Our credit card agencies demanding a proof before cancelling a transaction. They don't do it careless. I once canceled one with a seller in former Sowjet-Union, which item I never received and didn't communicate. I send them 10 pieces of paper as a proof. To me, it's fair. Anyway as a seller of an expensive item (I never sold one), I would exclude some countries from bidding, or using credit card payment. But not North-America, Europe and Australia.
With you guys in the US, I never had a problem. It can happen that shipment is slow, but then mostly snail German customs is responsible. Their behaviour is to store parcels the longer, the bigger the parcel is, the more priority it has, and th higher the customs duty is calculated (which can be everything between 6 and 26% of the customs value for the same class of item, I gave up trying to understand it...) A lens in a small box comes in 5 days if marked as private sending, a Graflex 4x5 took 7 weeks. Amazing. :cool:
cheers, Frank
Money orders are useful but here, if the destination country is not on the list of mutual money order agreements, they your only option us WU, which charges 10 euros for a 10-50 euros transfer.
The other option is Bidpay, which sends a US postal WU money order to the seller if he/she is not registered with them, that's usually way cheaper.
I must say I've never had a serious problem (knock on wood), and even when the parcels have been lost (one now) I've always found sellers that try to help as much as they can. That said, when there's a lost parcel or a refund, you enter in a very long period and you must arm yourself with loads of patience, and probably some buyers are impatient enough to irritate the seller :p
I guess the lesson for buyers and sellers is to be careful. Truth is there are bad people everywhere so as Rob says the Paypal protections are important. There are good people too, and I am happy to say that I have not had any problems to date.
Natalia, Money Orders are just like checks, sort of. I simply deposited the Canadian Postal Money Order I just recently received from you know who into my bank account. The teller looked it over, but there were no issues.
John Shriver
02-26-2005, 16:45
That 35/1.5 with the "Buy It Now" price of $750 is my old lens. I advertised it here a couple of months ago for $495. It didn't sell, so I advertised on PN for the same asking price and sold it for $450 to that person, who pissed and moaned through the whole deal trying to get me lower on price. And now he/she is asking $750 for it. Bwahahahaha!
Don
Yeah, eBay seller contax.g2 is into buying things, and then trying to resell the same item on eBay with a buy-it-now price at least $200 higher than what he paid for it. For instance, he bought a 100/2 for $460.55 on 1/16/05 (item 3866330471), and was flogging it within a week with a buy-it-now of $650, and a reserve presumably above what he paid. (He did keep the case.)
Well, shucks, he found a sucker on the third try. Item 3874466147. I feel sorry for the buyer, that's the highest price I've ever seen that lens sell for. (The winner had not bid on the auction contax.g2 won it in.)
I neither believe the 85/1.5 is so bad. Maybe it's soft wide-open, which can be nice and is common for a high-speed early 1950's portrait lens.
And then again maybe it's not. Here's a shot from last week's "Romeo and Juliet" rehearsals with the 85 on an Epson R-D 1. Yes, this is a JPEG and yes, it was shot at a high ISO, but considering those things, if you look at the inset, it's not too shabby for a high-speed antique!
http://homepage.mac.com/jlw/images/05-02-04_163.jpg
All of these lenses are for "RF freaks" who hate SLR cameras... be honest, highspeed portrait lens on a SLR are much better to handle. "you see what you get", Out of focus control, even weight...
Maybe I am one of those "RF freaks," but I much prefer the handling of the 85/1.5 on an RF camera over, say the 85/1.4 Minolta AF I used to own. The Minolta, like all high-speed SLR lenses, was awkwardly huge in overall diameter -- necessary in order to leave room for an SLR auto diaphragm mechanism with blades large enough to cover the glass. As for out-of-focus control... well, at full aperture, you can pretty well assume that everything except the exact focus plane is going to be out of focus to one degree or another, so why worry? In some types of shooting, the fact that you CAN see the background through an RF camera (vs. a smooth blur through an SLR) is an advantage -- it's easier to keep track of what's going on around the main subject.
But then, as I say, these may be the rationalizations of an RF freak!
back alley
02-26-2005, 20:31
as an rf freak myself, i gotta say i love the 85/2 that i have.
jlw, that's an impressive shot.
maybe i should sell everything and buy an rd...
i find my 85/2 to be a beast in comparison to the cv 75/2.5 (size wise) but i love the look & feel of it. and it's plenty sharp too.
joe
jlw, that's an impressive shot.
maybe i should sell everything and buy an rd...
Glad you like it, but nah, you wouldn't need to spring for the R-D. You could get images at least as good by shooting film.
For me, the only advantage of the R-D is that the people who use my photos need them digitally for cost reasons, and there's not enough time in my life to scan everything I shoot.
I am myself "RF freak enough" to like my Canon RF 1.8/85... :) But to be honest, my favorite fast telephoto is the Zeiss 1.4/85 SLR. Very compact as well. And dual helicoil mounting. Sharpness both excellent.
Frank
auctions yesterday:
35/1.5 with caps and box, looks excellent ... 471 USD/ 353 EUR, 18 bids
25/3.5 with caps and box, without finder, looks very good, 455 USD/ 341 EUR, 16 bids
50/1.4 Ser. 1 with low profile filter and rear cap, looks very good, 240 USD/ 180 EUR, 13 bids
100/3.5 black (last series; this is quite rare), box, without caps, 283 USD/ 212 EUR, 15 bids
I think all buyers paid moderate prices
The 50/1.4 was at $177 90 minutes prior to closing. That is when I had to sign off and play daddy so I threw in a bid of $237. There was only one bid after mine. Not a lot of snipers out there.
There are some nice 50/1.8s currently listed.
100/2, incl. caps (dunno if original), brown case. S/N 13891. Excellent barrel, cleaning marks! USD 305 (EUR 235). Not high a price for such a rare lens.
back alley
03-24-2005, 06:48
the seller did a poor job in his write up of the lens. too many negative words.
i had that lens for 300 till the last 10 seconds, when someone decided they wanted it more.
joe
Hi Joe, you never win an auction with a "round" limit. 308, 312 but no 300. I don't like it too to be outbid for 1 or 3 $... happens to me 5-6x in the last two months, more often than winning...
But this 2/100 was probably (if the cleaning marks were not too much) decent. I didn't bid because at the moment I have 5 or 6 RF-telephotos incl. the very similar 1.8/85. Instead of I will look for a 1.5/35 some time, if decent priced, because I only have two 35mm's :-)
cheers Frank
back alley
03-24-2005, 08:01
i also have a fast 85 the f2 and, while i had the cash on hand, i decided that 300 would be my limit.
i don't think i really wanted the lens all that badly.
and like you, i want to get a few more 35's. i have the chrome 35/2.8 and the 35/2 now.
i'm thinking of going for the slower 35's, hoping for different looks.
joe
is there a price list for non-canon/serenar lenses? Joe mentioned (in another thread) that I might want to check out a J-8 for my Canon 7s, and that got me looking for other less-expensive non-Canon options. Specifically, I'm now just browsing for a 50mm in case I need another, but down the line I'd expect to want to pick up a 24mm or 28mm anyway.
stet, the price list in the first post in this thread is the one that we refer to. I don't know of any others.
I was also bidding on that 100/2 but I'm so happy my bid was too low. After it, I spotted and hit a Canon Powershot A20 (digital, sorry...) advertised as 'canon camera' for $37 buy-it-now, and the next day found Huw's Canon 50/1.2 for 75 pounds at photo.net.
A Canon weekend :)
back alley
03-28-2005, 04:38
excellent oscar!
i saw the 50 but was not sure about it. i was mostly interested because of the price.
and here i thought you were being quiet all weekend...
joe
Glad you grabbed Huw's 50/1.2, Oscar!!!
I was rather beat when I saw this great lens at a grat price - didn't know you grabbed it - now I feel better :)
Denis
Thanks guys, I'll of course post some cam+cof with it when it arrives ! In fact I am quiet lately, and I'm visiting photo.net more this weekend because...
...
it's more dial-up friendly :p
Let's see if the adsl central maintenance is ready tomorrow, one gets used quickly to good things, and being with on the slow line since thursday is a bit annoying... :-(
A very nice Canon 100/3.5 lens closed at $194.50 last night. It is in very good condition, stamped EP.
Rover, have you seen the black&chrome Canon 100/3.5 for $85 at Sherry Krauter's site ? I wonder how's still there...
Not to mention her (OT, sorry) Leica M4 for $850 (!)
back alley
03-29-2005, 04:39
i missed both of those!
i'm slipping...
joe
I bet Joe beat me to them, I will have to check just in case.
back alley
03-29-2005, 05:24
i just checked her site but no canon in sight.
joe
back alley
03-29-2005, 06:39
ah, i missed that this morning. no coffee.
i just sent an email.
joe
back alley
03-29-2005, 08:50
no word yet.
joe
I had an interest in the one that sold last night, but the price jumped way over my "good deal" level of $99.99.
Rover, have you seen the black&chrome Canon 100/3.5 for $85 at Sherry Krauter's site ? I wonder how's still there...
Not to mention her (OT, sorry) Leica M4 for $850 (!)
What is the URL of Sherry Krauter's site?
www.sherrykrauter.com ;-)
back alley
03-29-2005, 12:47
no word yet!
i'm too old to be this impatient...
joe
I read somewhere that Sherry isn't the best with email. It may be worth a call.
back alley
03-29-2005, 16:38
i'm not the best with the phone.
houston, we have a problem...
joe
You with the phone, Sherry with the email, maybe a match made in heaven?
back alley
03-29-2005, 16:50
so, is the rumour that she doesn't answer her email?
it might be sold by the time she checks in?!
then it wasn't meant to be.
joe
It's still there Joe, it has your name on it.
Just a phone call... just one...
back alley
03-30-2005, 04:58
i want it & am ready to send the $$.
just need to hear from miss k.
joe
back alley
03-30-2005, 14:42
payment is in the mail!
the lens is mine.
seems i'm a 100mm collector now.
2 35's and 2 100's.
i'm sure i'll use them all...;)
joe
Good deal, I am glad you got it. Who gave in? Did she reply or did you call?
back alley
03-30-2005, 15:07
a guy named steve emailed me this morning.
i sent a money order this afternoon.
joe
back alley
04-05-2005, 17:31
just got an email from sherry k, my lens was mailed out yesterday.
joe
A 1.8/85 # 12007 in whats called excellent condition, without caps but UV-filter, went for 810 USD (626 EUR) in an active auction with early bids. telemetro won against jerro67. Seller was Swedish dealer leicavitmp. That's high! :-)
Last night I lost a 1.4/50 Ser.1 with metal front cap, mostly excellent, 261 USD (202 EUR), b.geneva was winner. Looks like a good price
A 35mm/1.8, with case and 50mm hood, fine body but with some cleaning marks, went for a good 234.50 USD (181 EUR)
cheers, Frank
Frank, the 50/1.4 is the second one you have listed that I have bid on late and not won. Just in case I miss the next one you spot, send me a PM :). Actually, do you have one to sell?
To sell? I wanna buy one! (but I would prefer series-II, with dual focus scale)
100mm f/2 very good (filter mount repaired, some minor marks at glass, caps, 58mm filter) 316 USD/ 245 EUR from Australia. A good price for the buyer
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