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Pentax F 70-210 f/4 (Two) & one rear lens cap ------------ $45 USD & shipping to wherever you are I can accept PayPal, Money Order, Personal Check (will wait the 7-10 days for it to clear), and Western Union (for people outside of the US ONLY please -- it is additional trouble for me, since there is not a close Western Union pickup office). Yes, this is the second most popular zoom, according to a poll taken about a year and a half ago. This is TWO F 70-210 zooms, one working and one broken. It is also a DO-IT-YOURSELF project, see long, involved, boring story below. ;-) However, if you are interested in this lens, PLEASE READ THE STORY so you know exactly what you are getting. The picture shows the manual focusing ring off on the second, broken lens. Camera Bag that actually says Pentax (in silver-colored letters) -------------------- $12.50 USD and shipping to wherever you are (see forms of payment above) Approx. 10" long, by 5 1/2" wide, by 7" deep. It has a zippered mesh pocket inside the top flap, three velcroed dividers in the middle (all moveable), and a zippered pouch on the front with two smaller interior pockets in it (good for filters and adapters, I've also keep a cleaning kit in the overall pouch, it holds quite a bit). I've had this bag about a year and it only has light wear. The "walls" are thicker and sturdier than most bags, so it holds up very well. But they are not so stiff that they have no give at all. I've liked this bag a great deal, but have outgrown it and am running out of storage room for keeping it as a second bag. The picture shows the bag unfastened, with the bag sitting on the fastener -- it fastens fine. ---------------------------- Long, Involved, Boring Story regarding lenses. Note that $45 is already less than half of what I paid for both on ebay, so I don't want to go any lower. I bought the first F 70-210 soon before getting rid of my Pentax camera, so I have never actually used it. It does seem to work, the seller had great feedback, and it looks cosmetically very good. At the time I bought it I really, really wanted a 70-210. So I bought one on ebay where the seller said (very honestly) that some of the SMC coating had come off, faded or something, around the perimeter of the front element (one side only, not all around the perimeter, in about two spots, maybe 1 1/8th or less of an inch wide in about two spots). Hard to describe. Only shows up when you examine it under a light. I was sort of fuddled, I thought SMC can't come off! But when I got it I saw the seller was right, bit puzzling. This will NOT affect picture quality, only lens flare. If the sun hits those spots. Since at the time I was so impressed with Pentax SMC coating (although I knew it would not affect picture quality), I turned around and bought a broken F 70-210 just to get a new front element with no fading. Which I did. When it arrived it appeared to have fingerprints on the backside of the front element. (Like someone inept had tried to repair it and put it back together). I've examined it and examined it and I don't think it is fungus, but I am not going to swear it isn't. It LOOKS like fingerprints. And it hasn't grown or anything in the six months I've had this lens sitting around. As far as I can tell. But I don't know what fungus looks like. Anyway, I am pretty sure the front element of the broken one is okay. So TWO F 70-210 lenses, one with an appearing okay front element, one working and looking fine but with some fading of the SMC coating around part of one side of the perimeter. Use the working one as is, or move the front element of the other to it. It really depends how important that lens flare SMC coating stuff is to you. And since I never used it, and never used it in slanting sun pictures, I am not sure if it WILL flare (since most of the coating is fine). End of Long, Involved, Boring Story. Cheap way to get a F 70-210 anyway, and they are not always easy to find either. Doe aka Marnie ;-)
