What difference does it make what someone else asks for anything or how anything is described if you don't plan to buy it? So someone calls a lens "rare" when it isn't. So what?
What difference does it make what someone else asks for anything or how anything is described if you don't plan to buy it? So someone calls a lens "rare" when it isn't. So what?
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
How do they come up with these prices??????? I mean Yea this is a great little quick working Portrait lens w/ a built in iris but at nearly 2 grand for a non collectible fairly newish Petzval lens? Think about it. I don't think I have EVER seen a Dallmeyer 2B f3 get 2 grand and that's one in great condition and complete. So again............. HOW DO THEY COME UP WITH THESE PRICES. Simply crazy!
This would be a decent deal at around $400-600. I believe the $600 is at the high end.
It doesn't Brain. It make no difference at all.Originally Posted by Brian Ellis
For me the reason I've posted a couple of times is because I think it's amusing.
I liked this one :
RARE 1850's LARGE FORMAT CAMERA PETZVAL BRASS BODY LENS COLLODION WET PLATE, Item 170854090930
He is selling a petzval but goes on to state: "The rear element was cracked but a nearly exact replacement was found and installed." No doubt by his local Paris-trained optician?
Good luck with that one.
I'm not much of a small format shooter but saw this BIN on eBay. What a deal! what an awesome kit!
Take a look! No need thank me for the lead. Really. I sure hope your lucky person who hits the BIN button.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-2-Ca...item2c65fd1f7d
Now come on. This shit is pretty funny Brian. You know it is
Oh Yea! Less than three days left so you better strike soon.
Here's a recent listing from the local CraigsList, that I actually ended up buying. The seller turned out to be a genuinely nice guy who knew nothing about old cameras, and quickly revised his ad from $2400 to $475. I was the first caller, and he kindly waited a day and a half to meet me, and put later callers on hold. The camera turned out to be a 4x5 Gundlach view, missing the extension, with a 7" Goerz Dagor (series III, no. 2) that was very hazy-looking. The shutter is a Ilex Universal, that appears fairly close to the marked settings on the first click. (But repetitive shutter releases soon become wildly inaccurate, the opposite of other wheezy shutters I own.) Bellows are slightly dry, but light-tight.
As the glass appeared to have fungus, I offered him $200, and we settled on $225. And he kindly took a personal check. When I got it home, I was happy to find the glass cleaned up well, although the front cell is frozen in the shutter. The lensboard is 4", and should work with my Graflex "C" boards.
I'm trying to convince myself I really saved almost $2200! ;-)
It is funny and entertaining. That is what this thread is about.
OK I mean how did they arrive at this price? I mean WTF!
Really is pretty damn funny.
I'm posting this as a curiosity; I don't know what is its intended use.
Still, it seems outrageously priced, so I'll add it here.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carl-Zeiss-T...#ht_500wt_1204
Apparently, the Topogons really do sell for that much. They are a very early ultrawide, one of the first, from what I've read.
Kent in SD
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