Anyone have $500 they might want to trade me for my -A version? Plus shipping, of course.
On Mar 15, 2011, at 05:00 , Mark Roberts wrote: >>> He is on the right planet if he can find a serious collector: That's >>> not the standard 15/3.5 like I have - it's the very rare early version >>> with the aspherical element. According to Boz only about 100 were >>> made. >> >> If I was claiming that, I would have included a picture of the serial >> number - which just happens to be one of those listed on Boz's page. > > If I were claiming that I'd: > * Make it perfectly clear in the text that this was the extremely rare > lens with the aspherical element > * Explain the history of how they came to be made > * Describe how to tell the difference between the standard 15/3.5 and > the rare version > * Provide a link to Boz's page documenting all this > * NOT CREATE THE EBAY AD IN RAVING 1996-STYLE NOOBIE HTML!!!!!! > > One of his photos *does* show the distance scale calibration that > gives this away as the rare lens, but you have to go researching on > your own to find that out. > > $2999.00 is overpriced, even for this lens, but he does have a "make > offer" option as well ;-) Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

