Vintage glass getting more expensive?

[amilne]

Ok, last thing here. I checked on google insights for search: big spikes for "wet plate collodion", "wet plate photography", "tintype photography" began in january of 2009. Peaked around april of this year then down again. Too bad there isn't historical information available for ebay sales of lenses, then maybe you could predict lens prices or something... Not like I know what I'm talking about, but still cool to take a look at.

[John Kasaian]

Of course everything seems to be getting more expensive why not vintage lenses?

[Jim Galli]

Of course everything seems to be getting more expensive why not vintage lenses?

Especially vintage lenses. As the dollar gets weaker, anything with real intrinsic value will adjust upwards.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Wet plate is getting more popular and we all know you can't photograph animal skulls with multicoated optics, especially in shutters

Never did understand this..... but then I'm a carbon printer and I just do jello! :-)

[ghostcount]

Wet plate + Carbon Printing = FTW!

[CCHarrison]

. Too bad there isn't historical information available for ebay sales of lenses,.

I do have some historical pricing data on Soft Focus Lenses... see here http://antiquecameras.net/softfocuslenssales.html

I havent updated it in about 7 months, but you can see some worthwhile data....

Dan