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Re: [OM] 300mm/F2.8 US.Zuiko???

Subject: Re: [OM] 300mm/F2.8 US.Zuiko???
From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:31:06 -0700
I've sure never heard of such a beast.  Others are probably more
knowledgable.

That said, I think my 350/2.8 is a collectors item, like a mis-stamped
penny.  See, it says:

        "OLYMPUS OM-SYSTE"

Anybody wanna give me $10,000 for it?  :>)

George

Hans van Veluwen wrote:
> 
> I visited today a camera store (where I, btw, rescued a 21mm/F3.5 Zuiko for
> $250 because it told me it was lonely :-), and the shopkeeper told me he
> recently sold a very special Olympus lens for about $1500. It had, according
> to him, its distance scale *only* in feet, not in meters, and he thought it
> was a 300mm/F2.8, made specially for the American market. I asked him twice
> if it wasn't the 350/2.8, be he was convinced it was a 300mm. Is this known
> to anybody? Did Olympus actually make special, non-standard Zuiko line
> lenses on demand, or only for the American market? If so, what would be the
> actual value of such a lens (the shopkeeper was already sorry he didn't ask
> more)?
> 
> Hans
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