Hi everybody, I feel a bit guilty for my absence from the list (or lurking, it depends on the point of view...) of the recent times; I would have liked to reply to many threads but in a way or another I was always late so I decided to stay away a bit.
I had (and still have) a lot of equipment tales to tell you but this is just my 'daily news' one. A collector I know (who is, in the 'real life', a lawyer) told me this morning that he had a manual focus Tokina lens (an 80-200/2.8) in K mount for sale in a shop. I had a bit of spare time so I went there. There was no 80-200/2.8 (already sold, I guess) but on a shelf, among a lot of soligorokunaricoh chep lenses, there was a huge cylindric case with 'Asahi Optical Co. Japan' engraved on it. Curious as ever, I asked if the case was empty or there was a lens in it. The answer: "there's a 75-150"... My memory of a Pentax 75-150 made me think of the small K mount tele-zoom. Certainly the case was more than redundant. I asked to have a look at it and... surprise! It was a screwmount lens. A Takumar 75-150/4.5 (not sure of the exact name). Very long (I had the impression it was longer than the SMC-A 70-210/4) and quite heavy, although not very large. I've never heard nor read of that lens (even JCO does not mention it in his site). I'm not a collector (although my amount of gear could give cause for doubts...) and I thought that somebody in the list could be interested in that lens. I recall a price of Euro 160 (US$172) but I may be wrong (it could be Euro 180 - not sure). Ciao, Gianfranco (hoping to be more present in the list from now on) PS: If anybody is interested in it, the shop's web address is http://www.otticadecesare.it/ (the used stuff page is still June 2002, but I guess they answer to the mail). ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com
