Canon 35/2 just went for $475

$475 for a Canon 35mm f2.... I found a small ad in the December 1967 edtion of Modern Photography magazine ," 35mm F2 CANON, SCREW MOUNT, LATEST, NEW, special. $59.50, case $3.00. ALTMANS, 129 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago 60602" .
 
AlexC said:
If you adjust for inflation according to the consumer price index (http://www.austintxgensoc.org/calculatecpi.html), $59.50 in 1967 works out to $345 today.

Not exactly sure what I'm trying to say, but I thought it might be interesting. 🙂
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completely off topic now...

using that calculator the 1950 (year of my birth) dollar is the 2005 8 dollar sum.

wow...
 
Oh my god!!!!

If anyone wants my Canon 35/2 drop me a note. I can't keep it for those prices.

Second version, the serial number on mine is only a hundred or so from the end of production.... it must be one of the best!!!!
 
rover said:
You realize I really want to post my lens on ebay right now.
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If I were you I'd do it... of course thats because if you were me you'd do it to buy a leica lens. I'm confused now...
 
Rover, in fact if I were you I'd get a spanner wrench, then take off the cult element from the lens, and maybe both original caps and sell them on ebay for $300 or so 😀 😉
 
Stephan said:
If I were you I'd do it... of course thats because if you were me you'd do it to buy a leica lens. I'm confused now...
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I already have a 35 Summicron, that is why I can sell it. It is a great little lens, but every man has his price.
 
How do these cults start?... maybe the great comments on the 35mm/F2 in Peter Decherts book (page 199) & members of this forum combined. But this cannot explain the high price of the 35mm/1.8, as Dechert ..while not knocking it,.. did not think it was as good as the Nikkor 35mm/1.8 .
 
Hm, deserves a Leica Summicron its price?
As far as results are concerned? Hm...
I just bought a Pentax 3.5/35 SLR lens of the same vintage for 41 USD. Apart from speed, I wouldn't expect performance far below the Canon 2/35...
Performance/Compactness ratio? This is a better argument pro Canon 2/35...
At least from collectors standpoint, I would expect original caps for that amount.. experience tells cap-protected lenses often show better glass than others.

thats my comment on that.

cheers, Frank
 
Lens prices have no rhyme or reason. I also shoot with a Nikon F and NIkkormat FTn, I would like to get a 105/2.5 for the cameras to use, but the prices are going nuts and I think its purely the collectors not the users bidding this stuff up.
Now with Canon, I have their 50/1.4 and I shoot with that all the time with my Leica M3, to sound like a heritic I love using that lens.
 
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