Believe it or not, suggested list here in the US on a new 50 1.8 is over
$240 .
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Keith (R.K.) Berry <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 9:24 AM
Subject: [OM] Lens price shock!
> Looking through the manual lenses section of the Jessops photographic
> catalogue, I am amazed to see that the new price of an Olympus 50mm f1.8
is
> an incredible 230 UKP! That's 10 UKP more than a Contax CZ Planar f1.7,
and
> almost three times that of a Minolta f1.7. With the Nikon 50mm f1.8 Nikkor
A
> at a mere 125 (no Canon equivalent listed) the Oly is the most expensive
> standard lens they sell! With a second hand value of around ten percent of
> that, it depreciates faster than the Euro.
>
> Could it be a misprint? If not, it shows what bargains the used ones are.
> Perhaps as a group we should buy them all up to create a demand and raise
> their value - matching pairs for binocular loupes and stereo viewers; put
> them into Leica R mounts and advertise them as Japanese Zummuikos; or
build
> a collection of one of each variant (how many did we say there were?)
>
> Regards,
> Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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