Canon LTM Canon Rangefinder Lens Price Guide

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I enjoyed looking through this, but was disappointed that it's not more inclusive (e.g. no 50/2.8) and of course, as with any opinionated guide, I'd disagree with some of the evaluations, for example:

-- The 100/2 isn't merely as good as the original 90/2 removable-head Summicron, it's significantly better. No nasty highlight flare at full aperture like the Summi!

-- The 85/1.5 isn't as bad as he says. Wonder if he actually tried one?

Still, it's nice to have something like this just to help Canon-lens newcomers, and to provide at least a vague initial reference point for prices (maybe it will dissuade eBay listers from thinking that common Canon lenses are worth ludicrously big bucks, for example...)
 
85/1.5 and 100/2.0 performance

85/1.5 and 100/2.0 performance

I don't have the 100/2 and 85/1.5, just the 85/1.8, which in my feel is in-plane with my Zeiss Planar 1.4/85 SLR lens, considered as one of the best portrait lenses ever...

I neither believe the 85/1.5 is so bad. Maybe it's soft wide-open, which can be nice and is common for a high-speed early 1950's portrait lens. Erwin Puts had tested the equivalent Leica Summarex and wasn't so bad compared to the current Summilux 75/1.4. Sources say that Nikons and Canons high speed portrait lenses were at least equivalent in the early 1950's. All of these lenses are for "RF freaks" who hate SLR cameras... be honest, highspeed portrait lens on a SLR are much better to handle. "you see what you get", Out of focus control, even weight...

From collectors view, these big glasses are nice and impressive, though.. ;-)

cheers, Frank
 
I was surprised that he says the 50mm f1.2 is $290, similar to the 50mm f1.4 at $275. I have the f1.4 and I guess I think of the f1.2 as considerably more exotic and desirable.
 
prices for lenses

prices for lenses

So what's the heck with prices in the last months?
Dollar too weak? Buyers unable to read? Wanna pay Leica prices? :

1.5/35 for 674 USD
2/100 for 835 USD
Asking 750 USD for another 1.5/35

I don't believe that..! :bang:

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PS, hey, this is my 3rd user-name. I couldn't log in with the right password...
 
Taunusreiter ? :)

Did you try deleting all your cookies and things like that, I think there' s a thread with instructions somewhere...

Agree that some Canons are starting to become way expensive...
 
I think that all those price guides are very optomisticly stated. I think they represent a best case scenerio and by far are not the true selling prices for the equipment listed.
 
how can i trust a price guide made by a man who is too lazy (?) to go to the post office and ship items to canada?

joe
 
morning rover and no, it's dripping now.

ya gotta remember, i'm sicilian and i hold a grudge for a long time. my loyalty also lasts as long.
this guy (who i think is also italian) wont ship to canada and in an email to me was quite dismissive.
i wont forget and have no problems advertising about him.

after the last comment i made about him on photo.net he requested my email address from them but has not used it so far.

i'm waiting...

joe
 
Sonnar2 said:
So what's the heck with prices in the last months?
Dollar too weak? Buyers unable to read? Wanna pay Leica prices? :

Asking 750 USD for another 1.5/35

I don't believe that..! :bang:
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Sonnar,

That 35/1.5 with the "Buy It Now" price of $750 is my old lens. I advertised it here a couple of months ago for $495. It didn't sell, so I advertised on PN for the same asking price and sold it for $450 to that person, who pissed and moaned through the whole deal trying to get me lower on price. And now he/she is asking $750 for it. Bwahahahaha!

Don
 
Hi Rover, "optimistic" in terms of prices of collectibles means either too low (buyer) or too high (seller). So you mean this friendly person wants to have all that stuff?

Hi Don: cute :cool: I saw gontax.g2 on virtually every bidlist of Canon RF gear. Maybe he misunderstood one gets the article when beeing the highest bidder most of the time the auction goes... ;-)

I ask him yesterday to shutdown it and sell me the lens for 500 together with the shade (not sure this is an original) and a proper front-cap.

The 1.5/35 is on my wishlist (notabene, for a right price) even if I expect not better performance than my 2/35. Why did you sell it?
 
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How, another bunch of 1.5/35 offered there...

and a 2/35, buy-it-now for 550, pride asking for a handfull of alloy and glass.. (bought my for 450 bundled with a mint Canon-7...)

Good news for buyers: A fine 1.4/50 with caps went last night for 255 USD. I sniped on it but was too stingy ;-) ..still regret the 215$ chance... :bang:
 
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I watched that lens too. The seller originally posted it without pictures so the little camere icon indicating that the auction description included pictures wasn't there. I was hoping it would go really cheaply. $255 was a good price though, very clean with caps and hood.
 
Sometimes it's no matter how it was advertised. This 215$ chance was really BIG, Big picture, frame, headline-listing, loudmouth described, best lens on earth and stuff like that... An amaurotic could see it, and I missed... ;-)
...Anyway, my small chrome 1.5/50 isn't a bad lens :)
 
My experiences with FM were that, after the community built up, ebay became irrelevant and all trading was done amongst trusted folk. Here's hoping RFF grows large enough that the 35mm Classifieds section duplicates the vitality of Fred's B&S forum.

...oh and I found this price guide too optimistic by far.

...oh and Joe I can relate to hot blooded Italians.

Tom
 
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