Surprised

[fbf]

anything above $4000 is still good price for the sp2005 set. I bought mine brand new for much less. The price has been up/down for the past two years.

 

[Tom A]

The lack of the re-issue 35f1.8 drops the price of the body considerably. To a collector a complete kit is essential, to a user the 35f1.8 is the key.
The voigtlander package is nice - but Cameraquest sold out the 50f1.5, 50f2.5 and the ApoLanthar 85f3.5 for $5-600 a while ago.
If you wanted a Sp 2005 body - no lens $2000-2200 is fair value, add the Voigtlander lenses and you are looking at a really good user package for $3000.

 

[degruyl]

Just curious: how much is a ~1957 kit going for these days? beautiful condition (not mine, alas, but a friend's). I think it is the SP and a 50mm. He's been fondling it for 50+ years.

 

[barnwulf]

I bought these same lenses from from Stephen at CameraQuest about 6 months ago. They are very nice lenses that he was selling at close-out prices. The eBay ad looks real enough to me, but it may be wise to do some further checking. I have been watching ebay for awhile now and checking the Completed Listings and a lot of the high dollar items are not selling very well. Jim

 

[NIKON KIU]

Just curious: how much is a ~1957 kit going for these days? beautiful condition (not mine, alas, but a friend's). I think it is the SP and a 50mm. He's been fondling it for 50+ years.

$1200-$1500

Kiu

 

[rbsinto]

Any idea what a re-issue black S3 or SP body only in user condition should sell for?
My only camera affectation is black bodies and I'd dearly love to get an S3 or SP user in black. I have a vintage 35 1.8 and don't like 50mm lenses so I'd need a body only.
Please and thank you.

 

[VinceC]

I rather expect that I may have the only black re-issue SP2005 in lightly used condition. Been carrying it in a daily camera bag and on business trips and vacations the past three years, so it has some scratches and a bit of brassing.

 

[Mister E]

That would be an incorrect expectation.

 

[Mister E]

My SP 2005 has had quite a workout. 20+ rolls in the last two weeks.

 

[Mister E]

I can't really shoot the BP SP because it's very stiff, but I do like the SP 2005. I can't take a Leica out at the same time because the opposite focus. Since I only took my SPs out with me I've become very fast at shooting despite the long focus throw.

 

[rbsinto]

I just sold this chrome user S3 2000 in the classifieds here for 62,500 yen including postage to Australia (postage would have been the same to Canada). That's about CAD $750 at the current PayPal exchange rate. A black reissue S3 in the same condition would probably sell for $300 to $400 more if you can find one. Only 2,000 black reissue S3s were made compared to around 8,000 chrome reissue S3s, so they're a lot harder to find in any condition.

An SP 2005 in the same condition would probably sell for closer to the $2,000 mark if you can find one. But I've never seen one in that condition for sale.

Prices must be vastly different on your side of the ocean, from those we see here.
I check ebay, KEH and a dealer or two I know locally, daily, and have never seen used S3's or SP's (chrome or black) at prices even remotely close to those you've stated. They're always much higher.
And while they seem to sit forever before being purchased, eventually they get snapped up, so there are persons willing to pay relatively big dollars for them.

 

[rbsinto]

Naw. I'm done with buying chrome rangefinders.
I've got three vintage chrome shooters, and will only buy a re-issued body if it is black, unless it literally falls out of the sky for nickels and dimes, and I don't expect that will happen.
I'm not up for the time and expense to ship a camera to Japan especially when I've never seen one of these re-paints in the flesh and have no idea about their durability on a user.
If I do get another body, I'll likely sell one of my chrome ones as I don't need four Nikons plus my R2S.

 

[rbsinto]

Wow, you have more S-mount cameras than me. I never thought of you as a collector 😱

Me a collector?
Not at all, but you already knew that.
I'm a user, and all my stuff gets banged around and used for taking photos (three bodies at a time when I'm on the street).
Remember, all three Nikons have F2 plastic tips glued to their advance levers (for which I was apparently burned in effigy by a Collector who admonished me for not "preserving the bodies in their natural states for future generations") so they're not in what you'd call collectible condition.
They're fun, and lovely examples of mechanical form and function, but they're just tools.

 

[Highway 61]

Nope, actually it was you as a puppet - with needles where they ought to be - laying on the Rotoloni book, surrounded with lit candles.

I know who dit that - for his punishment he got acid fungus in his Olympic Nikkor 50/1.4.

 

[VinceC]

Wonderful to read all these reports of people fearlessly using their new SPs.

 

[rbsinto]

Why do I suspect you swapped out the levers rather than gluing the tips on?
This alone likely saved you from wrath of the torch-carrying Mob.

 

[Highway 61]

He swapped out the original levers and installed aftermarket generic plastic-tipped levers on 😱

Him as a puppet is being made somewhere in China already.