What have you just BOUGHT?

Doug said:
Cal, I think you will like this lens a lot, it's brilliant. And on the rare side, especially in silver finish. Only 2000 of these (800 silver, 1200 black) were made. The initial retail price in Japan was about $1385. The lens shows a bit of barrel distortion.
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Doug,

Rarity is always nice, but I think I will love the enduring build quality as much.

I think I got a good deal since I got all the extras. Paid $995.00 which includes domestic shipping.

BTW I have a big chrome lens fetish. LOL.

Cal
 
Well, mine is the "common" black finish! Got it from an RFF member in Canada. Encouraging to see the value holding up too. 🙂

BTW, one other tasty tidbit about this is the rumor that Pentax contracted with Cosina to supply the barrel to fit their glass, Cosina being good at small production runs...
 
Ricoh GR, I've only played with it in the house so far, but it feels very complete and very impressive (and quite a leap ahead of my GRDII haha).
 
Doug said:
Well, mine is the "common" black finish! Got it from an RFF member in Canada. Encouraging to see the value holding up too. 🙂

BTW, one other tasty tidbit about this is the rumor that Pentax contracted with Cosina to supply the barrel to fit their glass, Cosina being good at small production runs...
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Doug,

If you go on EBAY it seems that the stockpile of available 43/1.9 Pentax-L's seem to be in Japan. This means there will always be a bit of a premium for higher shipping and currency exchange. It seems that Pentax-L's in North America are a rare commodity and that North American versions will always have somewhat of a small premium built in due to scarcity.

From another posting of yours you suggest that perhaps the Pentax-L might have ASPH glass, and I would agree that the signature is very similar to the Pentax 75/2.8 AL which is a lens I already own. I think the 75/2.8 AL is the best glass for the Pentax 67, especially on a Pentax 67 II with AE prism.

I saw somewhere on the internet that suggests that the chrome versions were assembled in Japan, while the black versions were assembled in Vietnam.

I expect delivery Wednesday, and I was lucky to find one available domestically. Last night I was looking at how the 135mm frames work with my 0.85 VF'er on my MP. It seems likely that I will use a 35mm LTM adapter to exploit the 135mm frames for a guide to follow "the rule of thirds." The same relationship between 28mm and 90mm exists that I really like for composition.

Cal
 
Fuji film compact camera case and two rolls of film from Goodwill. ��
 
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