Folks,
O.K., I have some spare time over the holidays and was thinking about some of the lenses I've tried to find over the years that were "common" lenses, or so I assumed, but never or almost never found. So share your uncommon common lens thoughts.
The first lens I'm still looking for is a Kodak 14" Commercial Ektar with a "RO" number since that's 1956, the year I was born. Never seen one. I have an outstanding RR (1955) lens, but wondered if they made them at all in 1956.
The second is a single coated 135mm f/5.6 Fujinon W. This is the 80 degree lens, and I looked for one fairly often on eBay and never found one until about 10 days ago. Fantastic lens, as are all of this series, but I bought the only one I've ever seen. 125mm W-series are fairly common, 150mm W series less so, and even the 250mm f/6.7 is seen fairly often. That means 135mm W-series lenses are not common even though your intuition might say otherwise. Anyone else have a 135mm single-coated Fuji-W?
Cheers, Steve
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