I really don't understand the "shortage" -- when I purchased the F version new in March, no one had even inquired about the availability of 50mm primes from Pentax Canada in almost five years.
If it was a "shortage", it was caused by retailers refusing to stock or special-order the lens. -Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: FA-50/1.4 (used) price Date: Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:30 am Size: 1K To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> The Pentax 50mm f/1.4 lenses are known to be very high quality for their price and highly desireable. It was/is rumored that they were discontinued ... certainly a year ago there were shortages worldwide. So they became highly sought after on the used market, which kept prices high. I think it's fine that a good lens like this commands a premium price on the used market. And I'm happy that Pentax continues to offer this lens at a bargain price! After all, for a lens which is virtually the equal of a Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4, it's a heck of a deal at 12% of the latter's price. Godfrey On Jun 28, 2006, at 2:30 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > Have we discussed the price of the FA-50/1.4 before? I sort of want > one, > but have found that they tend to be rather expensive - although I > think > someone said recently here that they are cheap. I mean, the list price > for a new one isn't really that high, but it seems like used items > tend > to go for almost the same amount on that-place-whose-name-ends-with- > ay. > > Why is that? Is it because of the rumour that this lens has been > discontinued? Or maybe it *has* been discontinued (well, I'm sure > that's > something that has been discussed earlier), but it's still on my local > distributor's price list, and B&H claim to have it in stock... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
