Adam, PMFJI. Even with many eyes looking for bargains, there's occasionally an anomalous price on eBay (.com, .co.uk, .fr, .de, .es, .it) or on a site. IIRC, my 420 Apo Nikkor came from a seller on eBay.com, my 610 came from a seller on Astromart (Google found it bundled with a 305), my 610 from a seller on ebay.com, and my
900 Apo-Saphir (not a peep out of you, Nick, if you see this) from a seller on eBay. de. The most expensive cost $200 delivered, the others were considerably less.
Patience helps. These lenses aren't that common and the longer, the scarcer. If you want long lenses right now, put up a WTB on this forum's classifieds section and be prepared to pay. Pay close attention to eBay.de, there are usually many Apo Ronars, most shorter than you want, on offer there.
Since I'm essentially out of the market, here's my ebay search string (artar, claron, germinar, "gr ii", grii, ronar, apotal, apo-nikkor,apo-saphir, apo-skopar,apo-tessar,"process lens") You don't want a G-Claron or Konica Hexanon GR II, they're all too short for you, so drop those terms. Also consider looking for Industar 11-m, they come in a variety of focal lengths of which a few might be long enough. Soviet apo-tessars, see
www.arnecroell.com for east bloc process lenses.
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