Was this a Really Good Deal?

[dazedgonebye]

This listing (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120129629873&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:12) for a Schneider 47mm Super Angulon f5.6 looked like a great deal to me.
For the sake of my newbie education...can someone tell me why it went for that price?

[Nick_3536]

http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/vintage_lens_data/large_format_lenses/super-angulon/data/5.6-47mm.html

Why ? It's a medium format lens with that image circle. But the prices on Ebay are a function of the Ebay market.

[Ron Marshall]

The 47mm Super-Angulon XL is the version that covers 4x5, 166mm image circle. I have seen a couple go for $1000.

[dazedgonebye]

http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/vintage_lens_data/large_format_lenses/super-angulon/data/5.6-47mm.html

Why ? It's a medium format lens with that image circle. But the prices on Ebay are a function of the Ebay market.

I'm familiar with market economics...I was just wondering if there was something wrong that I, in my ignorance of these lenses, could not see.

[dazedgonebye]

The 47mm Super-Angulon XL is the version that covers 4x5, 166mm image circle. I have seen a couple go for $1000.


So, unless there is something more wrong with this than a slow shutter, this looks like it was a great deal.

Thanks

[Dan Fromm]

Its a single coated 47/5.6 SA; they typically go for less than later multicoated 47/5.6 SAs. And the shutter needs a CLA. In my experience nearly all shutters need a CLA on arrival.

FWIW, not the lowest price ever for a single coated 47/5.6 SA, mine cost less. But then it was in an obscure military camera, not identified by the seller as an SA, and in a #00 Prontor Press to boot. Great lens on 2x3.

There's no accounting for auction prices.

[Ted Harris]

No, not necessarily grat deal ..... read Dan's post carefully.

[dazedgonebye]

Ahhhh, ok. Good deal, not great deal then.

Thanks. I'm trying to educate myself and learn how to read these things. I did not notice the SC thing.

[Carsten Wolff]

and it's not the SA XL , thus, as Nick and Dan also point out, pretty much a MF lens.