Re: You think Pentax lens prices are bad?

2013-06-28 Thread Christine Aguila
Wow! Doesn't Canon have a 50/1.2? Wonder what that's going for now? (These days it seems silly to write questions like the latter with the verb to google so ubiquitous and virtually effortless--hence, it's selling on amazon for $1,400.) Cheers, Christine On Jun 26, 2013, at 2:58 AM,

Re: You think Pentax lens prices are bad?

2013-06-28 Thread Bill
On 28/06/2013 7:09 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: Wow! Doesn't Canon have a 50/1.2? Wonder what that's going for now? (These days it seems silly to write questions like the latter with the verb to google so ubiquitous and virtually effortless--hence, it's selling on amazon for $1,400.)

You think Pentax lens prices are bad?

2013-06-26 Thread Larry Colen
Check out the Buy it now price for this Canon 50/1.8 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-EF-50mm-f18-II-Standard-AutoFocus-Lens-2514A011AA-JAPAN-NEW-/231006798452 -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: You think Pentax lens prices are bad?

2013-06-26 Thread P.J. Alling
Funny, it doesn't look platinum plated. On 6/26/2013 3:58 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Check out the Buy it now price for this Canon 50/1.8 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-EF-50mm-f18-II-Standard-AutoFocus-Lens-2514A011AA-JAPAN-NEW-/231006798452 -- There are two kinds of computer users those who've

Pentax lens prices - historical comparison

2008-04-04 Thread Stan Halpin
Those of you who have a filter that prevents you from viewing postings by a list member who goes by his initials which include J and C and O, you might want to unfilter for a bit and look at his 4 April 2008 8:47:56 PM CDT posting. He has begun compiling historic lens prices, and in the

Historical NEW Pentax Lens Prices, List and Street. Anyone have any info?

2008-03-25 Thread J. C. O'Connell
hi yall, I have been very interested for a long time but not finding any NEW price information on all NEW Pentax lenses made since the spotmatic (1964) era. I have found a few NEW list prices for a few years here and there but no NEW street prices for the older lenses. I would be very interested

Re: Historical NEW Pentax Lens Prices, List and Street. Anyone have any info?

2008-03-25 Thread Brendan MacRae
I would try to get in touch with Gerjan van Oosten who wrote the Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide. If anyone would have this info I'll bet he would. He is published by Uitgeverij Janz. The email listed in the book is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe they could point you in his direction. -Brendan --- J. C.

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-10 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jarek Dabrowski wrote: Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1 Beautiful set of images, as

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-09 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Keith Whaley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1 Beautiful set of images, as well.

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-09 Thread Jarek Dabrowski
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1 Beautiful set of images, as well. Well done. The seller is a PDMLer. But a quiet

Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread pnstenquist
Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread Keith Whaley
Beautiful lens, isn't it? Beautiful set of images, as well. Well done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1 keith whaley

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread Peter J. Alling
It could be the Favorable exchange rates some currencies are experiencing vs the USD. Though I'd expect the buyers to be from Euro countries, (and maybe GB as most other places either have their currencies pegged to the dollar, or their currencies have been doing worse than the dollar).

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread Mishka
kevincamera has been listing these for $650 or so for quite some time. considering that the A85/1.4 are fetching $1K (give or take a few bucks), i am not that surprised. there's another very sweet auction is going on, i am wondering how far that will go... best, mishka On Wed, 09 Mar 2005

Re: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Mar 8, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Keith Whaley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another top dollar sale. $580 for a K 85/1.8. Great lens, but I've never seen one bring that much.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemcategory=4688item=3878670616rd=1 Beautiful lens, isn't it? Beautiful

RE: Escalating Pentax lens prices

2005-03-08 Thread Shel Belinkoff
About the time I was buying my K85/1.8 glass, prices were easily in the $600.00 range. I purchased a damaged one for $350.00, put it on eBay, and got $475.00 for it, and another, also damaged, went to a list member for $375.00. The really nice ones went for $600.00 or a bit more. Shel

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-13 Thread Cotty
On 13/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: I'm a manual sniping kinda guy :-) It's kinda the thrill of the hunt, isn't it? Well it's funny you say that. When I first started out (the hard way) and figured out all by myself that driving up the price of something days before close was a waste of

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-12 Thread Andre Langevin
When I used to snipe manually, I won a few auctions with one second left, but get this, one time I won with ZERO seconds left. Thats right, the time of the bid matched the end time, to the second. In the event of a tie, YOU WIN! JCO You win? The first to have bid the amount wins, no? In this

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-12 Thread Cotty
On 12/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: When I used to snipe manually, I won a few auctions with one second left, but get this, one time I won with ZERO seconds left. Thats right, the time of the bid matched the end time, to the second. In the event of a tie, YOU WIN! JCO You win? The

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-11 Thread Cotty
On 10/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Very good advice! The only thing I can add to that is, whenever you come upon something that you want that has a But It Now price that is right, click it immediately, before someone else either clicks it or bids something that turns it off. Or put in a

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-11 Thread Cotty
On 10/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Use a snipe program, thats what I do. I put in what I think would be good deal and let it bid at the last second for me. If everyone did this, there would be less battles and more good deals. Problem is that the sellers would not get as much. The

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-11 Thread J. C. O'Connell
: Pentax lens prices On 10/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Use a snipe program, thats what I do. I put in what I think would be good deal and let it bid at the last second for me. If everyone did this, there would be less battles and more good deals. Problem is that the sellers would not get

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-11 Thread Andre Langevin
When I used to snipe manually, I won a few auctions with one second left, but get this, one time I won with ZERO seconds left. Thats right, the time of the bid matched the end time, to the second. In the event of a tie, YOU WIN! JCO You win? The first to have bid the amount wins, no? In this

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentax lens prices P.S. Ironically, re bidding war, we had been bidding on a used lens (Zenitar). I found out later that got the same thing NEW about $10 cheaper that what that auction finished at. That's how crazy ebay

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-10 Thread Eactivist
P.S. Ironically, re bidding war, we had been bidding on a used lens (Zenitar). I found out later that got the same thing NEW about $10 cheaper that what that auction finished at. That's how crazy ebay is. All it means is that you need to do your homework, and find out what the market price

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-10 Thread graywolf
Heck, I bid on something a couple of weeks ago, the week before the same item (relisted)had not had a single bid so I figured I would get it no problem. Guess what 30+ bids and it sold for more than I would ever have considered bidding and I was willing to pay a fair price (around what several

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-10 Thread mishka
That's how crazy ebay is. ebay is not crazy. people who have no idea what they are doing, are. there's very little need in bidding more than once. preferrably, in the last 0.1 second (sniping that is). and, in general, unless the starting bid is 1c and you just using items i am bidding on

RE: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-10 Thread Len Paris
-Original Message- From: mishka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentax lens prices That's how crazy ebay is. ebay is not crazy. people who have no idea what they are doing, are. there's very little need in bidding more

Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread Robert Gonzalez
I've noticed that a few AF lenses that I was looking at in ebay went for close to retail. Has anyone noticed this recently? I'm wondering whether the release of the *istD is responsible for some of this. For example, a recent auction of an FA* 80-200 2.8 went for almost $1100, when you could

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread gregcooper
price, but I never heard back. Greg Cooper - Original Message - From: Robert Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 2:43 PM Subject: Pentax lens prices I've noticed that a few AF lenses that I was looking at in ebay went for close to retail. Has

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread Gary L. Murphy
gregcooper wrote: I've noticed this as well on several occasions. One in particular was an F50mm auto focus that went for almost double the new price. I couldn't believe it. I even emailed the seller after the auction saying if the buyer turned out to be a fake I would be interested in the lens

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread Eactivist
I've noticed that a few AF lenses that I was looking at in ebay went for close to retail. Has anyone noticed this recently? I'm wondering whether the release of the *istD is responsible for some of this. For example, a recent auction of an FA* 80-200 2.8 went for almost $1100, when you could

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread graywolf
Remember many folks who by from Ebay are out in the boonies and there are no shops that sell reasonalbly nearby. They are also not knowledgable about the NYC places. So what seems like a lot to us, may seem like a bargain to them. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that a few AF lenses

Re: Pentax lens prices

2003-11-09 Thread gregcooper
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: Re: Pentax lens prices gregcooper wrote: I've noticed this as well on several occasions. One in particular was an F50mm auto focus that went for almost double the new price. I couldn't believe it. I even emailed the seller after